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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Left’s <b>refugee</b> wails are boatload of lies</span>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>922 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>32</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MORAL exhibitionists, who went unseen and unheard when hundreds upon hundreds of so-called <b>asylum</b> seekers — men, women and children — were drowning, were gifted the ABC’s airwaves and the gamut of the Fairfax media to parade their virtue after the High Court ruled the government could lawfully ­return those who sought to ­arrive illegally by <b>boat</b> to Manus Island and Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Around the nation, a host of moist-palmed clerics dusted off a medieval practice to declare their churches “sanctuaries” in which they would shelter some 220-odd people- smuggler clients and 37 children from the authorities.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many are the same clerics who are also fervently in favour of homosexual marriage and opposed to the traditional view that marriage is the blessed union of two people of opposite sex who would hope to bear natural children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even as church groups made their ludicrous claims about the sanctity of church space, not one volunteered to pay the $1 million cost of the High Court challenge they had supported.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our self-anointed moral guardians will let taxpayers bear that cost while they stand on their soap boxes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Adopting faddish political stances which highlight their absurd hypocrisy will ultimately drive more traditional worshippers from churches that claim to stand for everything but on inspection stand for nothing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fortunately, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton is as determined not to be swayed by the pious bleating of much of the media and the usual suspects as was his predecessor Scott Morrison, and is forthright in his resolve to uphold the law and do everything in his power not to provide people smugglers with any hope that the government is softening its approach.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In what amounted to hostile advocacy by Michael Brissenden, the presenter of the ABC’s AM program put to Dutton that there “are the claims, as you know, of sexual assaults every 13 days” — even though the claims were false and the minister had previously dismissed them on the ABC.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not good enough for Brissenden, however, who showed his disbelief, saying: “OK. But can you understand that the public might be a bit sceptical about this because there’s very little information really about what’s going on there.” Frankly, the public is more likely to be sceptical about branches of the media which push their own social engineering agenda, and is more likely to be dubious about the motives of individuals who ­attempt to enter the country ­illegally and who destroy their identification documents in order to make it more difficult for the authorities to establish who they are, than they are of a government which actually managed to achieve what the majority of the commentariat and the ALP and Greens had said was unachievable — stopping the boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What is doubly embarrassing for the ABC, the workplace of choice for rafts of former Labor staffers, and other advocates for the people-smuggler clients, such as Human Rights Commissioner Gillian Triggs, is that the detention of illegal arrivals was introduced by a Labor government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That fact doesn’t fit the left-wing narrative of Labor being the party of sympathy, empathy and uber-compassion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They also cannot bring themselves to acknowledge that the Howard government was the first to actually stem the tide of <b>boat</b> arrivals and reduce the numbers of detainees held in Labor’s detention centres.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Further, they would choke rather than admit that Kevin Rudd , one of Labor’s many false messiahs, campaigned in 2007 on a platform of stopping the boats — only to break that promise, along with almost every other of importance — upon his election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The interim prime minister Julia Gillard was just as ineffectual. It was on their combined watch that the numbers in detention skyrocketed, another important fact the luvvies never mention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As Dutton said as he was being interrogated on AM, there were 8000 children in detention when Labor was in power. The number peaked at about 2000 during one period. Today, there may be just 75 on Manus and Nauru. Less than 1 per cent of the number that Labor locked away.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Strangely, the church groups and other advocates seem as unable to acknowledge this extraordinary reduction as they are reluctant to repay the taxpayers who have funded their legal follies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former prime minister Tony Abbott was mocked when he said he would stop the boats but it is obvious that stopping the boats stopped the deaths at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Had his government not acted with the determination it did, the scenes of dead men, women and children washed up on beaches in the Mediterranean would be replicated in the waters to our north.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As Dutton said: “There were 1200 people who drown­ed at sea, includ­ing women and children, the voices of whom have never been heard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“When I talk about getting children out of detention in Australia and trying to provide medical support in a first-world country like ours, people smugglers in Indonesia are messaging that if you have children, get on a <b>boat</b> now because you will settle in Australia and Dutton will release you out into the community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“So, we have to be compassionate on the one hand but we have to be realistic about the threat from people smugglers and we’re going to continue our vigilance against people smugglers while providing compassion to those that have been traded in this evil people-smuggling organised criminal syndicate.”At least the preachy members of the community would again fall silent.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Offer to <b>asylum</b> seekers</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>JOHN MASANAUSKAS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>196 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">VICTORIA has offered to ­resettle 267 <b>asylum</b> seekers who face being sent back to Nauru after a High Court decision.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Premier Daniel Andrews has written to PM Malcolm Turnbull claiming that infants among the group would be exposed to a life of physical and emotional trauma in Nauru.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“A sense of compassion is not only in the best interests of these children and their families. It is also in the best interests of our status as a fair and decent nation,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This week, the High Court rejected a bid by the <b>asylum</b> seekers to stay in Australia following medical treatment, giving the Federal Government the green light to send them back to the processing centre in Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Andrews said he wanted the <b>asylum</b> seekers to call Victoria home. “Victoria will accept full responsibility for all of these children and their families, including the provision of housing, health, education and welfare services,” he said.Victoria already has the highest number of illegal <b>boat</b> arrivals on bridging visas of any state — 11,032, with many living in suburbs like Dandenong, Springvale, St Albans, Doveton, Noble Park and Sunshine.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Asylum</b> seekers offer</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>JOHN MASANAUSKAS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>137 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">VICTORIA has offered to ­resettle 267 <b>asylum</b> seekers who face being sent back to Nauru due to a High Court decision.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Premier Daniel Andrews has written to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over concern about infants among the group.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“A sense of compassion is not only in the best interests of these children and their families,” he said. “It is also in the best interests of our status as a fair and decent nation.” The High Court has rejected a bid by the <b>asylum</b> seekers to stay in Australia after medical treatment, giving the Federal Government the green light to send them back to the processing centre in Nauru.Victoria houses the highest number of <b>boat</b> arrivals on bridging visas of any state — 11,032, — in suburbs such as Dandenong and Sunshine.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>We cannot go soft on offshore processing</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Dennis Shanahan Political editor </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1198 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A sentimental approach to the dwindling number of <b>asylum</b>-seekers would re-energise people-smugglers</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now is not the time for Australia to change its policy on the offshore processing of <b>asylum</b>-seekers on Nauru or Manus Island just because there are so few people involved that people can be named and identified and there are no people-smugglers’ boats on the horizon.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indeed, with victory over people smugglers and the emptying of detention centres at hand, it is the very moment when the government must remain firm in its policy determination.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The emotional pressure is now greatest on the Coalition to give in and grant <b>asylum</b> and citizenship to the relative handful of people still in offshore detention, particularly the 37 babies — some born in detention and in Australia — who can now be sent back to Nauru, because there are so few and there is no sense of crisis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hard and harsh as it is, the Coalition government and the Labor opposition must stick with the deterrent policy of offshore processing and deny access to Australia for those seeking to enter illegally and then use the legal system to stay to the bitter end.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The deadly and destabilising boom-and-bust cycle of illegal entry, specifically through the deadly path of Australia’s northern waters, cannot be allowed to continue because hard-fought legislative and political solutions are weakened and removed at times of little threat in the name of a warm inner glow.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As prime minister, Kevin Rudd laid the foundation for the people-smuggler-induced crisis of loss of life, total disruption of Australia’s <b>refugee</b> and immigration policies and huge burdens placed on Australian taxpayers by watering down the Howard government’s border protection policies when there was no threat in the name of being humane and to appeal to the left wing of the ALP.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor concedes this was a fatal mistake. Indeed, when he returned as prime minister one of the biggest challenges and one of his biggest successes in that short time was to reintroduce offshore regional processing and reverse much of what he had done to try to put an end to the 1200 deaths at sea, the 50,000 people put through detention and more than 800 illegal people-smuggler <b>boat</b> arrivals. Tony Abbott ’s extension of Rudd’s plan, the toughening of immigration laws and an iron political will, along with Scott Morrison’s commitment to a military implementation of the then prime minister’s will, ensured that after long, hard and painful months for all involved, the boom cycle eventually turned to bust.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The immediate humane dividend to this singular success was the ability of Australia to increase its <b>refugee</b> intake and provide <b>asylum</b> to a bonus 12,000 extra refugees from Syria. Most detention centres have closed and as of Thursday this week there were 75 children in detention compared with 8000 during the Rudd-Gillard years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This week the High Court, which had previously delivered such political and policy chaos to the Gillard government over its offshore people-swap processing proposal with Malaysia by ruling it unconstitutional, delivered an overwhelming endorsement of offshore processing and endorsing the bipartisan approach to stopping people-smuggling by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The appeal to the High Court was based on the 270 or so people who have come from Nauru to Australia for medical care or accompanied family members coming for care, including 37 babies. The appeal to the public to pressure the government to allow the people to remain in Australia was based on the damage to the physical and mental health of those on Nauru, particularly children, and was underscored by the fact there were so few people involved.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When <b>asylum</b>-seeker advocates, who had hoped the High Court would rule against offshore processing and ensure the <b>asylum</b>-seekers did not have to return to their country of origin, were defeated legally the argument became not “legal but moral”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government faced demands from advocates, doctors, the Human Rights Commission , the United Nations, the Greens, churches and lawyers to end the system anyway and allow the people to stay. The Australian Psychological Society argued that despite the High Court judgment “it is ultimately ineffective and indefensible to inflict enormous suffering on one group of desperate people in order to send a message of deterrence to others”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Unfortunately for all concerned the APS is wrong in thinking offshore processing on Nauru and Manus Island is “ineffective”. It has been shown to be an effective deterrent during the Howard government and almost immediately from the moment Rudd re-introduced it in 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Unpalatable as it may be, the fact that it is effective makes it “defensible”. Europe, including the open-border exemplar of Sweden, suffering from an uncontrollable influx of <b>asylum</b>-seekers is now adopting the Australian way despite our so-called “pariah” status for years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sneers directed at both the Coalition and Labor about a “race to the bottom” are based on an opposition to all offshore processing and are in defiance of the argument that stopping illegal boats stops deaths at sea and provides the opportunity for a greater, managed <b>refugee</b> intake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It also ignores that people smugglers will use any sign of a weakening policy as a means to restart business.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The desperation of those involved, already driven to perilous journeys and prepared for years of waiting, is equally determined when given hope. The current High Court case was possible because coming to Australia for medical treatment provided the opportunity for access to Australia’s legal system and advocacy advice.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The original policy of allowing all family members to accompany a sick family member or pregnant mother meant the bulk of those seeking a ruling from the High Court were not actually in Australia for medical treatment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The result is that many of the babies who have captured such attention now face being sent back to Nauru because the government’s failure to do so will be seen as an opportunity to encourage women with children to get on boats bound for Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As Peter Dutton and Malcolm Turnbull told parliament this week the people-smugglers — like “cockroaches” — are waiting to come out at the first opportunity. “We have stopped the boats, we have done that as a compassionate nation. As a nation that cares about people, as a nation that does not want to have tens of thousands of unauthorised arrivals and thousands of people drowning at sea,” the Prime Minister said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Since coming back into office the Coalition government have stopped the boats and we have reduced the number of children in detention to fewer than 100. Our goal is to reduce that to zero. But the key element in doing so is to ensure that people do not get on people-smugglers’ boats and put their lives at risk,” Turnbull said in response to the Greens.Abbott suffered from claims that he lacked compassion and Turnbull was seen as more caring but on this issue Turnbull knows an emotional retreat at the end of a long and painful process is not the answer.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Possibility of a GST rise tests Turnbull's likeability</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Andrew Clark </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>865 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Comment</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kerry Packer leaned forward, engaged his luncheon companion in a hard look, and said: "We like our friends for their faults."</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was typical Packer: the media magnate lunching with other figures from the big end of town and turning a piece of conventional wisdom on its head. But he had a point.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The late Kerry Packer's philosophy is relevant to any examination of the progress of one of his former star recruits, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The star recruit operates in the politics of today. This is a rambunctious place where traditional tribal, family and class loyalties are fragmenting in an era of domination by markets, incessant opinion polling, the internet, iPhones and globalisation. So the "likeability" factor, and its capricious ways, comes into play.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In fact, likeability is playing a central role in the political narrative of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull . The story so far: Liberal leader Tony Abbott destroys Rudd-Gillard-Rudd Labor and gallops into office. Once in power, his likeability - as measured in opinion polls - goes down the toilet. Long-time rival Malcolm Turnbull smells blood and destroys the Abbott prime ministership in a brutal party room putsch.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Up to nine months before that dramatic party room meeting on September 14 last year, political conventional wisdom in Canberra held that Turnbull could never come back from an earlier stint as Liberal Party leader. He may have had good opinion poll ratings outside the tent. Inside, or around meetings of Liberal MPs, he was widely disliked.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But, as the Abbott government slid further into public disfavour, Turnbull's external likeability - and its promise of electoral triumph - trumped his internal unlikeability. The process was accelerated by opinion poll-generated harbingers of electoral doom if Abbott continued as leader.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nearly five months later, Turnbull's Prime Ministership has been marked by a further increase in his political buffer. His opinion poll ratings have climbed even higher, dispatching Labor to the political desert.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a manner no one really anticipated, the centrist Turnbull political persona has triggered the most remarkable change among many voters alienated by the eight-year Rudd-Gillard-Rudd-Abbott miasma. Turnbull has acted as a sort of psephological release valve, giving permission to many disaffected Labor voters to contemplate a switch to the Turnbull-led Liberals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even more remarkably, this nascent switching process has occurred as Turnbull retains hard-line Abbott-era policies like <b>refugee boat</b> turn-backs, a "direct action" programme to mitigate climate change, and holding a post-election plebiscite on the issue of same-sex marriage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the same time, he has managed to avoid direct confrontation with the wider public and refuseniks in his own party. This has helped generate a positive, can-do atmosphere, in contrast to the disquieting negativity of the Abbott era. Until now. Reported, but not confirmed, plans to raise the Australian GST by 50 per cent to near European levels - or a 15 per cent impost on the item or service being taxed - to facilitate cuts in personal income tax in the May budget are raising Liberal backbench hackles.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is limited documented evidence so far of these "bedwetters" - as one senior Liberal anonymously labelled the dissenters - coalescing around a vanquished Tony Abbott . Such a move could make this a potential proxy issue to undermine Turnbull. Public hostility to a higher GST could also erode Turnbull's likeability.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Like the goat in the Frank Sinatra song, Labor has high hopes that the GST issue will even help turn around its dismal political fortunes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These hopes rest on a combination of backbench and public disquiet over a possible GST hike, or at least an undertaking that a GST hike will take place after the next election, denting Turnbull's likeability.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For Labor, the GST issue may indeed help, particularly as there is a sense of zig-zagging inside government circles on the issue. But Turnbull, sensing the public hostility headwind, was back-peddling from any proposed GST hike by week's end.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Moreover, As Peter Chen, senior lecturer in politics at Sydney University, points out, "liking" and "disliking" at a political level are fungible emotions, particularly when you're dealing with a smart operator like Turnbull.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Less smart was former Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd . "People liked Kevin Rudd until they got to know him," Chen says. Meanwhile, his successor, Tony Abbott , "had likeability early on as a daggy dad. When that faded, it wasn't replaced by a sense that he was competent."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Translated, this means that while it is not crunch time for Turnbull, the likeability-unlikeability roller coaster has started. An underestimated factor in Turnbull's successful replacement of Abbott was that many business figures liked what they saw in Turnbull as a figure who could sell economic reform, such as changes to the tax mix.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Failure to deliver reform - or even a sense that Malcolm Turnbull is leading an empty political vessel - could lead to not just a loss of business support, but even some erosion of his stratospheric opinion poll position.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But what if the public end up liking Turnbull for his faults?</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Helping hands have been hogtied</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Michael Simmons   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>978 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MRCURY</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>33</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The bid to settle refugees and grow Tasmania’s ailing economy is being thwarted, explains Michael Simmons</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TASMANIA acceded to the Federal Government’s Safe Haven Enterprise Visa program in October, becoming only the second state to do so.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Premier Will Hodgman proclaimed at the time that Tasmania was opening its hearts and doors to those in need. But, it seems Tassie’s generous spirit and the chance to derive significant long-term benefits from the safe haven program have been undermined from the outset.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In December, the Mercury reported that “the scheme offers <b>asylum</b> seekers a better chance to stay in Australia in return for moving to the country”. However, the temporary nature of the program and the limited paths for recipients to move on to permanent visas raises serious questions as to how many will truly be able to settle and build a future in Tasmania.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the law and policy is framed, it seems that safe haven will be a perpetual legal limbo of subsequent temporary visas for many.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is a concern for the refugees directly subject to the policies and for the Tasmanian community, which may be denied the significant opportunities that can follow when refugees are permitted to settle and prosper.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The safe haven visa is a five-year temporary visa available to people found to be a <b>refugee</b> and owed Australia’s protection as a matter of law.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This visa is part of a suite of measures implemented to address a backlog of about 25,000 <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrived in Australia after August 13, 2012, and have been waiting to have their claims assessed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This visa replicates a pre-existing skilled migration program that provides an easier path to permanent residency if the holder works in regional Australia for a fixed period, however for <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrived by <b>boat</b> this is the only means of pursuing a permanent visa.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are two significant hurdles to overcome in order to obtain a permanent visa.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">First, a safe haven visa-holder must undertake regional employment while not accessing social security benefits, or fulltime study paying international fees at a regional campus (or a combination of these activities) for a cumulative period of 42 months, they will become eligible to apply for certain other onshore visas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Second, a <b>refugee</b> who does the prescribed regional activities must still meet all eligibility requirements for the subsequent visa they wish to apply. They are placed in the same position as any prospective migrant seeking to obtain an Australian visa.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To obtain a skilled visa the <b>refugee</b> will need a high level of English language, suitable qualifications and/or job experience and possibly sponsorship by an Australian company. Alternatively, family visas may be possible if the applicant is the spouse, child or parent of an Australian citizen or permanent resident.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The refugees who receive safe haven visas did not travel to Australia due to their exceptional skills, education or family ties, which a number may nonetheless possess.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia’s Government has accepted that they face a real risk of persecution in their respective home countries and for this reason cannot lawfully be returned. Indeed, if they could have obtained a skilled or family visa through the general migration program, there would have been no need to risk a journey by sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Notwithstanding the contributions and connections they may have made in regional Australia, if a safe haven visa-holder cannot satisfy the criteria for grant of a visa in the general migration program the only option at the end of their visa is to apply for a temporary protection visa. Until an individual is able to obtain one of the prescribed skilled or family visas they will remain in a perpetual cycle of needing to have their <b>refugee</b> claims reassessed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cruelly, denying an obtainable path to permanent residency or citizenship robs an individual of the ability to sponsor their family to come to Australia, without which it will be hard for most to build their future here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If refugees are unable to settle and establish themselves, it is questionable whether Tasmania will derive the benefits from this program.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are many examples of positive outcomes from <b>refugee</b> settlement programs in Australian communities. In the Victorian town of Nhill, a program to settle Karen refugees has been touted as a lifeline for a regional community in decline. <span class="companylink">Deloitte Access Economics</span> estimates the economic impact of the increased labour supply is $41.5 million.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The program redressed population decline, revitalised local services, attracted increased government funding and built social capital among both the host and <b>refugee</b> communities. The Hindmarsh Shire Council chief executive surmised that in addition to economic benefits: “The social impact of the Karen settlement is extraordinary. Nhill, a very conservative community, has embraced and opened their minds and hearts to the Karen. This has made Nhill a better place to live.” Recently commenting on the success from a program to employ Bhutanese refugees in her Coal River vineyard, manager of Jansz-Parish Vineyard Jen Doyle emphasised: “It’s good to know that they are going to stay for the long term. It means that we don’t have to keep training people, that we build on the skills that they already have.” While purporting to bestow safe haven and an opportunity for enterprise, currently the safe haven program, appears destined fail to provide a durable solution to many refugees and to also deny Tasmanian towns immense benefits. It is conceivable under the present framework that many individuals will join our community but may be relegated to being perpetually temporary Tasmanians.Michael Simmons is a solicitor in migration and <b>refugee</b> law. He grew up in regional Tasmania and studied in Hobart. He holds a Bachelor of Laws with Honours. The views in this article are entirely his own.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>COMPASSIONATE LEFT’S INCONVENIENT TRUTH OF NO MORE DEATHS AT SEA</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Chris Kenny Associate editor   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1194 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Those who rail against Nauru blind themselves to far worse <b>refugee</b> scenarios</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Those who have been wrong on border protection all along don’t want to go gentle into the night but instead rage against reality. In the wake of this week’s High Court decision they are shrill again — pontificating, trumpeting their virtue, vilifying others and offering only more chaos.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is nauseating. People who eschew the sanctimony and search for ways through — Scott Morrison, Peter Dutton, even Richard Marles — are targeted with vile abuse from those like Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young whose only contributions are to undermine solutions, stir trouble and encourage uncertainty.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A front page of The Age this week showed pictures of <b>refugee</b> and <b>asylum</b>-seeker babies with the tabloid headline, “Babies bound for ‘hell’.” Apart from being emotive, this is misleading and demeaning towards the people of Nauru, not to mention the Australians working there to care for <b>asylum</b>-seekers and refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is only three months since I was on Nauru, where the unavoidable ocean views provide false hope for refugees — there is nothing stopping them buying a <b>boat</b> and sailing for the horizon. But the ocean is vast, Nauru’s isolation is extraordinary, and should they ever find landfall their statelessness would follow them. Similarly, the <b>refugee</b> advocates torment the <b>asylum</b>-seekers and refugees with false hope of dramatic policy changes. They promise that protests, stunts and even contrived medical trips to Australia will force the government to back down.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Talking with refugees on the island, those who believe such tactics can work are noticeably more unsettled and anxious. The minority who accept they will never reach Australia are still uncertain and concerned, of course, but seem a little more purposeful in considering alternatives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The so-called compassionate Left have learned nothing in two decades of border trauma and tragedy. Even with boats dashed on the rocks of Christmas Island and unfolding tumult in Europe, they reject any lessons.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These people — the compassionistas — are epitomised by Hanson-Young and other advocates who campaigned for open borders yet wipe their hands of the terrible consequences.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Having seen more than 50,000 people, including thousands of children, channelled through detention centres as the people-smugglers profited from their illegal trade and more than a thousand people drowned at sea, they now agitate again to weaken our border protection regime.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They are happy to use any emotional device and will throw around claims of rape, abuse and even torture, without evidence and with no regard for the Nauruan and Papua New Guinean people they vilify.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They win unquestioning endorsement and a platform for transparent moral posturing from the ABC, Fairfax and the press gallery — the love media. They deride mainstream Australians by framing a wise understanding of the importance of border security to the integrity of our generous immigration system as some sort of racist panic.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">The Guardian</span>’s Katharine Murphy typified this attitude when she tweeted this week that we live in a “political culture that sees votes in responding to <b>asylum</b> claims with offshore prisons”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Our prejudices and fears create this toxic debate,” she went on. This is the distorted and demeaning view of the populace from the rarefied atmosphere of Canberra.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Ten Network and Radio National’s Paul Bongiorno tweeted, “Let’s drop the bull shit not allowing deaths at sea equals compassion.” The deaths happened. They have stopped. This is a fact. It is not the only fact but it is an important one which, apparently, is inconvenient for some.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Clearly many campaigners use this issue to set themselves apart as the moral and intellectual superiors of their compatriots. It might just as well reveal the opposite.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Having ended the people-smuggling trade, the Coalition has been able to lift the nation’s <b>refugee</b> intake to record levels, including by taking in 12,000 people from the Syrian debacle. It is working on the large backlog of <b>asylum</b>-seekers and refugees awaiting resolution in our nation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The clear and pressing priority in this diabolically difficult policy area is to find proper and permanent homes for the more than 2000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers and refugees in Nauru and Manus Island. It is the stunts and sanctimony of the compassionistas that has precluded the most attractive resolution.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On my return from Nauru last October — amid vicious lies and abuse directed at me by advocates for daring to report the reality of conditions on the island — I spoke to senior people in government, opposition and even a leading <b>refugee</b> advocate about finding another way.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is clear many of the people stuck on Nauru would make model citizens. So now that the boats have been stopped, perhaps there was a way to bring them to our country without sending a green light to people-smugglers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A conditional visa, perhaps, or arrangements to settle in designated areas to work towards bridging visas or residency if certain conditions were met? But it was clear the government and the opposition have tried to consider every option.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They are aware of the myriad problems, such as not advantaging anyone over the 30,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers on bridging visas already waiting for processing while living in our communities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the greatest problem with resettlement here is the one created by the critics of strong border protection. Campaigning against the reimposition of offshore processing from 2009 onwards, Labor, Greens and <b>refugee</b> advocates were quick to deride the Coalition’s earlier success. Most of those sent to Nauru ended up in Australia anyway, they exaggerated (about 30 per cent went home and 30 per cent were resettled elsewhere, while about 40 per cent came, quietly, to Australia).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This posturing was an act of policy vandalism — seeking to undermine the deterrence of offshore processing, when they should have welcomed the fact the deterrence worked even with a humane outcome for the people involved.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What this means now is that any people resettled from Nauru to Australia will be trumpeted internationally as a monumental failure in our border protection regime. The activists have created a situation where backdoor settlement here would undo the success of the policy. It is a terrible conundrum.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Conditions on Nauru are not “hell” and strictly speaking, there is no detention. (Manus Island would be much tougher and I have not been there.) On Nauru refugees and <b>asylum</b>-seekers, in many ways, have better living conditions than the locals. The provision of food, shelter, schooling, healthcare and a monthly stipend, together with a benign climate, make for relative comfort.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But on this tiny, featureless island, the sense of isolation is overwhelming. There is no surprise that the refugees — now mostly living in settlements around the island, freely working and living alongside Nauruans — are desperate to leave.It is a purgatory in the Pacific; limbo at latitude zero. Each day there is part of their life lost. To end the torment they need resettlement options fast. Only with the finding of third country options, or the repatriation of those willing to go home, will this long wait end.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>PITY THOSE MAKING THE DEVIL'S CHOICE</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>JOE HILDEBRAND   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>630 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>43</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Imagine this: You see a baby before you, as innocent and pure as only the very young can be. You know that with the mere stroke of a pen you can change the course of its life in an instant, give him or her a future their parents could only dream of.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But here’s the catch: If you do so you know that you are depriving another baby, unseen and far away but just as alive and just as innocent, of that very same future.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That is the impossible moral quandary Australia is facing right now and, far from ­imaginary, it is brutally real.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No human being could be unmoved by the plight of the 37 newborn children of <b>asylum</b> seekers facing deportation to detention in Nauru. On the surface the solution seems simple: Show some compassion, show some decency, and let them stay.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The reality, however, is far more complex and far more vexing. So let us consider the full weight of it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To begin with, granting the newborns <b>asylum</b> would of course mean granting their parents the same right, as well as any siblings they might have both here and abroad — not doing so would be inconceivable. And of course other children receiving treatment here after suffering through detention offshore would rightly feel they too deserved reprieve, as would their parents and siblings.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indeed, a compassionate heart would grant amnesty to all of the 250 or so <b>asylum</b> seekers here receiving treatment, and in time their families too. But where then does that leave the remaining unfortunates on Nauru and Manus Island — including many other children — who, perversely, were unlucky enough not to be sufficiently sick or injured to require medical treatment in Australia?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Is this fair?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Worse still, do we inadvertently create a cruel incentive for people to feign illness or commit acts of self-harm in order to win a chance at freedom if they survive the ordeal?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tragically, we have already seen the impact of well-intentioned compassion writ large.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia’s onshore processing of <b>asylum</b> seekers, which I once wholeheartedly supported, ended up luring naive and exploited <b>boat</b> people into a death race which left an estimated 1200 men, women and children literally dead in the water.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I was wrong. That cannot be allowed to happen again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And looming above all this is the even greater moral question of how we take in those who somehow manage to pay for, embark upon and survive a journey across continents at the expense of those who have nothing and are left to rot in <b>refugee</b> camps around the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For the cold hard truth is that for every <b>asylum</b> seeker we take simply because they are here, another <b>refugee</b>, ­already registered and waiting in silence and desperation, is left behind. The only difference is we do not see them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By all reason the most humane thing to do is raise Australia’s overall <b>refugee</b> intake to the maximum we can accommodate and have that number come from those ­already processed by the <span class="companylink">UN</span> and confirmed as being most at risk.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But of course that is not the instinctive response when we have people who are also clearly vulnerable already in our midst. Humans respond better to faces than to statistics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These are the questions we must face. And the most torturous one is this: If we truly want the greatest possible good, do we grant the gift of new life to the children most in danger or those who end up on the front page of a newspaper?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Does real humanity come from our hearts or from our heads?It’s the Devil’s choice, and may God help those who have to make it.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Beazley's pep talk warns Labor about lost opportunities</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the tax debate and <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy, we need better leadership than what we've got.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">'The mob on the ropes is exhibiting more unity, esprit de corps and sense of purpose than the crowd that is universally considered a shoo-in.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">T he pep talk came from a man well-qualified to reflect on how hard it is to win national elections, having borne the weight of expectations and almost prevailed not once, but twice. Bill Shorten called him "the best prime minister Australia never had". Kim Beazley was the surprise guest speaker when Labor MPs and their staff gathered at the <span class="companylink">National Press Club</span> on Wednesday for their annual dinner to mark the start of the political year. After stepping off a plane from Washington earlier in the day, the just-retired ambassador to the United States delivered an address that deeply moved many in the room, especially those who were not on the scene when he led Labor to honourable defeats in 1998 and 2001. What struck many was the guilt and regret the big man they call</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Bomber" still carries from those losses, like an AFL player who has played in two grand finals but retired without ever holding aloft the premiership cup. As Beazley expressed it, it wasn't the foregone personal glory that gnawed away at him, but the fact that the losses kept the Howard government in power, leaving Labor powerless to watch changes being introduced that could not be easily undone. His point was that the current Labor crop had to believe they could win, and do everything within their power to achieve that end, or they, too, will be burdened by the pain of opportunities lost. This was also the message from Shorten, who offered Beazley absolution and declared that no one had served the Labor Party with more decency than him. Acknowledging Malcolm Turnbull's ascendancy, the Labor leader said: "None of us have the right to give up." Those convinced that Labor needed a two- term strategy to regain government, he said, were betraying millions of</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">voters who were depending on them. From all accounts, it was a morale- boosting occasion, underscoring an unusual phenomenon at the start of this election year: the mob on the ropes is exhibiting more unity, esprit de corps and sense of purpose than the crowd that is universally considered a shoo-in to be returned later this year. The reasons for this are simple: having promised the economic leadership that Tony Abbott failed to deliver, Turnbull is still overseeing a national debate about tax reform, but yet to signal his preference for what form it should take. While outsiders such as Mike Baird and Jay Weatherill continue to make credible proposals, and federal Labor warns of the consequences of a 50 per cent hike in the GST, the message from the federal Coalition is that everything is still on the table. If Coalition backbenchers were nervous before Parliament resumed, their anxiety would have been increased a few more notches at the intervention of another former Labor leader, Paul Keating, just as Treasurer</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Scott Morrison was giving the firmest indication yet that he is committed to the higher GST path. Warning that increasing the GST to 15 per cent would only lead the political system into continuing its bad spending habit, Keating declared: "If you give a dog a bone, they'll bury it. If you give the political system $35 billion, they'll spend it." It was Victorian Liberal backbencher Russell Broadbent who first alerted his colleagues to the risks of continuing down the GST increase path. Early in December he told the Coalition party room that he had only been in two GST elections, and lost his seat both times. He wasn't so</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">much throwing a grenade as planting a seed of doubt. Those doubts are now shared by a very large slab of the Coalition party room, prompting Turnbull to address some of the concerns head-on in the Parliament this week and assert that any changes will drive growth and jobs and be fair, with the complexity of changes outweighed by the productivity gains they will deliver. While Turnbull exudes measured confidence that the process will produce a package that is capable of being explained and supported, the take-out of the week was summed up by one Liberal who told me: "It will be very hard for Morrison to get a 15</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">per cent GST up now." This week, as the High Court upheld the legality of Australia's policy of consigning <b>asylum</b> seekers who came by <b>boat</b> to indefinite limbo on Nauru and Manus Island, Broadbent attempted to plant another seed. Essentially, he is backing the suggestion of academic Robert Manne to break the impasse in what I suspect is the most toxic public policy debate this country has ever confronted. On one side are those who believe the end justifies the means and insist that any hint of compromise in the way Australia treats <b>boat</b> arrivals will encourage people smugglers and result in deaths at sea resuming. On the other are those utterly dismayed a policy could be embraced that continues to inflict damage on vulnerable people, even when that damage is done to children. If the ranks of the dismayed were not increased by seeing the faces of the babies who face being sent to Nauru, the intensity of their revulsion at the policy was.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Broadbent idea is to say and do nothing about the decision of the Commonwealth to return more than 220 <b>asylum</b> seekers, including about 50 children, to Nauru, along with 37 babies born in Australia. Broadbent would also like to see those who have been damaged by their detention on the remote islands quietly brought to Australia, with the main pillars of Australia's policy remaining in place to deter further arrivals - offshore processing in foreign countries and <b>boat</b> turn- backs to Indonesia. The weakness of this approach would be that relief would come too slowly for more than 900 men in custody on Manus and more than 1200 men, women and children on Nauru already at breaking point. One way forward, perhaps the only way forward, is detente between the parties and some serious discussion about how we achieve the twin objectives of ending the misery of the Nauru and Manus caseloads and minimising the risk of <b>boat</b> ventures. Wouldn't it be uplifting if Turnbull and Shorten chose to lead it? Michael Gordon is political editor of The Age.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>naprcu : National Press Club</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gvote : Elections | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | gpol : Domestic Politics</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020160205ec260002z</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020160205ec260003a" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Jury still out in the court of public opinion</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3181 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>B001</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jury still out in the court of public opinion</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Continued Page 2</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">'Majority rules cannot justify racism, murder or an immoral war.'</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">T his week's High Court decision on the rights of <b>asylum</b> seekers in the Nauru concentration camp could serve as an object lesson to people seeking political short cuts via knockout blows, rather than the long haul of changing public opinion. Australia's conduct in Nauru and Manus Island may be a moral outrage to thousands of Australians, but these thousands are a minority and the outrage will probably continue until that fact changes. This is by no means necessarily to give six of the seven High Court judges a pat on the back for their decision. They ticked off the ingenious scheme by which <b>boat</b> people are held in appalling conditions by brutalised Australians (many in Canberra), out of Australia's legal jurisdiction. It was like one of those tax dodges that used to win the admiration of Sir Garfield Barwick. It was, six judges thought, good enough to remove our treatment of refugees away from the supervision of the Australian judicial system. The case could have gone either way, and I could readily think of half a dozen former recent High Court judges, each of greater judicial reputation than most of the majority, who would have cut through the legal fiction in the manner of Justice Michelle Gordon, the judge in the minority. The legal fiction is the notion that the veil provided by Nauru, which does Australia's bidding for reward in the punishment of <b>boat</b> people, is sufficient to remove any Australian legal accountability of Australian public servants and mercenaries working at Nauru to Australia's direction. Nauru, like Papua New Guinea, the other country we are treating as though it were in our pocket over the detention of <b>boat</b> people, is a deformed sovereignty, largely thanks to the corrupting ways and ends of Australian politics. Down the track the fact that we conduct our relations with both, but particularly PNG, through the prisms of immigration department convenience will produce a national security disaster. The decision suggests that the court is weary of long tussles with Parliament and executive government over the rights of people whose liberty is being restrained by agents of the Australian government. There were brave words, particularly from Justice Stephen Gageler, about the limits of executive power and the ability of the courts to hold government to account. But these could hardly disguise the fact that the court was allowing the Australian government to do behind closed doors, elsewhere, what the courts would not allow to be done in Australia itself. The precedent is something like the claim, ultimately rejected by the <span class="companylink">American Supreme Court</span>, that Guantanamo Bay was outside the jurisdiction of courts because it is not American soil. [Gageler's judgment, in partial dissent, should be read by every politician and public servant as a general statement of how everything done by Parliament and the executive is ultimately examinable by the courts. It's a great, and for the gung ho, foreboding, affirmation of the limits of official action. But Gageler, like five of the other judges, found that sovereign Australia was entitled by any number of constitutional heads of power to enter into agreements with "sovereign" Nauru. Such agreements can, it seems, erase words of our constitution.] Australian public servants are entitled to detain <b>boat</b> people and to deliver them "to the Nauran authorities". Once there, it seems, what happens to them has nothing to do with us, even if those doing it are Australian public servants, or people carrying out their orders. Nauru pretends to give the prisoners we send a special visa (paid</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">History may be harsh judge of Nauru detention decision</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From Page 1</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">for, at exorbitant rates, by the Australian government after an Australian government application.) In Nauru, <b>boat</b> people are under the complete practical control of APS officers and contractors hired for "garrison" and other duties paid for and arranged by Australia. Only the deniability and accountability are exported, for rubber stamping by the High Court. Nauru, under Australian guidance, has adopted a few laws to which detainees, like other residents, are subject, allowing our ministers to disclaim most responsibility for what happens in our name, at our instance, and, usually, by our hands. The poor living conditions, official indifference to maltreatment and mental decline of many of those indefinitely incarcerated are the gift of, and generally at the hand of Australians. In more recent times, partly so as to close off a potential gap in the defence to this action, most detainees have had free run of the island. They are no longer confined behind a fence, even if, in practice, they must sleep inside the tents in the camps. The "freedom" this affords to those involved must be experienced in the face of a hostile population, a corrupted and incompetent government and police force, and the</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">knowledge that there is no escape, certainly to Australia, ever.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But what a cheek that a few Australian bleeding hearts should think that they had the right to have the court overturn, as beyond power or being unjust, laws passed through the Australian Parliament with the consent of both major parties. Or arrangements made by successive governments over more than a decade. Such interfering busybodies hunt around until they find a suitable horrible example of injustice in action - in this case a woman in Australia for medical treatment unavailable in Nauru, who did not want to be returned there. Australia has no Bill of Rights. Some may think this wrong, but the omission, by our founding fathers, was deliberate. They thought the freedom-loving instincts of our wise politicians, bureaucrats and judges would be more effective than a possibly limiting formula of words. Politicians who went too far in oppressing others would be punished at the next election. Real Australians could never be a lynch mob. It takes an imaginative judge to divine much more than a right to due process and judicial scrutiny from the Constitution. Those who would have it otherwise would be better focused on agitating for a Bill of Rights than on impeaching judges for timidity or gutlessness.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The objections to the use of Papua New Guinea and Nauru for Australian concentration camps are well known, and, of course, sincerely held. For some it is a moral issue. One does not - feels one cannot - accept a majority decision if it is wicked or wrong. Majority rules cannot justify racism, murder or an immoral war. For others, the <b>boat</b> people issue is, ultimately, just a pragmatic issue. It's about saving <b>boat</b> people from evil people smuggling gangs. Or from drowning. Or, perhaps, from making a convenience of our continent by exercising an international civil right of running away from war and oppression to the refuge of a country pledged to help genuine refugees. About two-thirds of the population supports the policy. In Canberra, the proportions seem to be reversed. The policy has been a major election issue on a number of occasions, and the present coalition government has an undoubted political mandate for it. The first task of those of us opposed to the policy is to mobilise public opinion, or other pressure, in an effort to persuade government to change it, or the electorate to force it to. There are many ways of making the argument. One can tell people about the appalling conditions involved in the policy, and the terrible misery on innocent people, including children, that government seems</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">to think is necessary in order to deter others from getting on a <b>boat</b>. The <span class="companylink">Human Rights Commission</span>, human rights groups, doctors and influential citizens have done just that. But their arguments have had little effect, and not for want of being heard. The politicians know about the misery. Most do not act because they know that most of the public also knows, and that it doesn't care. Or positively approves. The ranks of the indifferent include people simply opposed to a <b>refugee</b> intake, or to a Muslim or Asian one. But they also include people persuaded that it is necessary to be cruel to be kind to <b>boat</b> people, if only to prevent more drownings. The idea that ours is a wise, if harsh, policy, is magnified, for some, by the problems Europe is having in coping with an "invasion" of tens of thousands of people fleeing Syria. Many think that the particularly generous response by Angela Merkel of Germany comes from German war guilt over the fate of millions of Jews, Gypsies, Poles and Russians. Postwar generations of Germans judged their parents very harshly. Perhaps. I suspect that 20 years hence most Australians will judge today's politicians, and the bureaucrats (and soldiers) who devised and carried out our national policies very harshly indeed. High school</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">students will study and be asked to analyse the speeches of Philip Ruddock about not humanising <b>boat</b> people, the vainglory of Kevin Rudd, and the calm coldness and indifference of Peter Dutton. Others will comment on how ADF officers provided cover for a policy of concealment. Others will ask why most of their parents, and grandparents, were so willing to persuade themselves that there was no practical alternative. That some will seek to excuse themselves by pointing out their loud and practical opposition may be of little more account than the claims of many white apartheid South Africans that they themselves were liberal on race matters and kind to their black servants. It won't quite cut it. It's effective opposition that matters. Australia's participation in the Vietnam War was initially very popular with the electorate and overwhelmingly endorsed at an election in 1966. By 1970, it was distinctly unpopular. This was no matter of the war dragging on. It was because of a lot of campaigning and persuasion, and not merely in the streets, but in all sorts of public forums, societies, churches and parliaments. It took similar campaigns to make apartheid unpopular - although a good many Australians of conservative persuasion were practical good friends, and</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">defenders, of apartheid South Africa almost to the end. Using the law to cut off a serious practical evil can be, in the right circumstances, a quick way to get results. But it often has its costs. US politics lives with the legacy of abortion rights coming from the judges, via an imaginative extrapolation of the right to privacy, rather than through the legislatures. For many of the more turbulent Christian right, that judicial decision was an immoral deal breaker that stripped not only the courts, but the very social fabric and national government, of moral authority and legitimacy. A major reason for the modern US revolt against national politicians is because a significant number of Americans no longer respect or assent to the system. Likewise, Canadian politics has suffered because progressive courts have anticipated human rights and been prepared to impose them on sometimes unwilling and dissenting subjects. With all of this happening, it is ironic that Scott Morrison, now Treasurer rather than master of <b>boat</b> people punishment, is making just the mistakes in successful tax policy formation that his opponents made over <b>boat</b> people policy. Perhaps it is karma, or kismet. Or perhaps it is because he is now, as it were, out of his depth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">for, at exorbitant rates, by the Australian government after an Australian government application.) In Nauru, <b>boat</b> people are under the complete practical control of APS officers and contractors hired for "garrison" and other duties paid for and arranged by Australia. Only the deniability and accountability are exported, for rubber stamping by the High Court. Nauru, under Australian guidance, has adopted a few laws to which detainees, like other residents, are subject, allowing our ministers to disclaim most responsibility for what happens in our name, at our instance, and, usually, by our hands. The poor living conditions, official indifference to maltreatment and mental decline of many of those indefinitely incarcerated are the gift of, and generally at the hand of Australians. In more recent times, partly so as to close off a potential gap in the defence to this action, most detainees have had free run of the island. They are no longer confined behind a fence, even if, in practice, they must sleep inside the tents in the camps. The "freedom" this affords to those involved must be experienced in the face of a hostile population, a corrupted and incompetent government and police force, and the</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">knowledge that there is no escape, certainly to Australia, ever.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But what a cheek that a few Australian bleeding hearts should think that they had the right to have the court overturn, as beyond power or being unjust, laws passed through the Australian Parliament with the consent of both major parties. Or arrangements made by successive governments over more than a decade. Such interfering busybodies hunt around until they find a suitable horrible example of injustice in action - in this case a woman in Australia for medical treatment unavailable in Nauru, who did not want to be returned there. Australia has no Bill of Rights. Some may think this wrong, but the omission, by our founding fathers, was deliberate. They thought the freedom-loving instincts of our wise politicians, bureaucrats and judges would be more effective than a possibly limiting formula of words. Politicians who went too far in oppressing others would be punished at the next election. Real Australians could never be a lynch mob. It takes an imaginative judge to divine much more than a right to due process and judicial scrutiny from the Constitution. Those who would have it otherwise would be better focused on agitating for a Bill of Rights than on impeaching judges for timidity or gutlessness.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The objections to the use of Papua New Guinea and Nauru for Australian concentration camps are well known, and, of course, sincerely held. For some it is a moral issue. One does not - feels one cannot - accept a majority decision if it is wicked or wrong. Majority rules cannot justify racism, murder or an immoral war. For others, the <b>boat</b> people issue is, ultimately, just a pragmatic issue. It's about saving <b>boat</b> people from evil people smuggling gangs. Or from drowning. Or, perhaps, from making a convenience of our continent by exercising an international civil right of running away from war and oppression to the refuge of a country pledged to help genuine refugees. About two-thirds of the population supports the policy. In Canberra, the proportions seem to be reversed. The policy has been a major election issue on a number of occasions, and the present coalition government has an undoubted political mandate for it. The first task of those of us opposed to the policy is to mobilise public opinion, or other pressure, in an effort to persuade government to change it, or the electorate to force it to. There are many ways of making the argument. One can tell people about the appalling conditions involved in the policy, and the terrible misery on innocent people, including children, that government seems</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">to think is necessary in order to deter others from getting on a <b>boat</b>. The <span class="companylink">Human Rights Commission</span>, human rights groups, doctors and influential citizens have done just that. But their arguments have had little effect, and not for want of being heard. The politicians know about the misery. Most do not act because they know that most of the public also knows, and that it doesn't care. Or positively approves. The ranks of the indifferent include people simply opposed to a <b>refugee</b> intake, or to a Muslim or Asian one. But they also include people persuaded that it is necessary to be cruel to be kind to <b>boat</b> people, if only to prevent more drownings. The idea that ours is a wise, if harsh, policy, is magnified, for some, by the problems Europe is having in coping with an "invasion" of tens of thousands of people fleeing Syria. Many think that the particularly generous response by Angela Merkel of Germany comes from German war guilt over the fate of millions of Jews, Gypsies, Poles and Russians. Postwar generations of Germans judged their parents very harshly. Perhaps. I suspect that 20 years hence most Australians will judge today's politicians, and the bureaucrats (and soldiers) who devised and carried out our national policies very harshly indeed. High school</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">students will study and be asked to analyse the speeches of Philip Ruddock about not humanising <b>boat</b> people, the vainglory of Kevin Rudd, and the calm coldness and indifference of Peter Dutton. Others will comment on how ADF officers provided cover for a policy of concealment. Others will ask why most of their parents, and grandparents, were so willing to persuade themselves that there was no practical alternative. That some will seek to excuse themselves by pointing out their loud and practical opposition may be of little more account than the claims of many white apartheid South Africans that they themselves were liberal on race matters and kind to their black servants. It won't quite cut it. It's effective opposition that matters. Australia's participation in the Vietnam War was initially very popular with the electorate and overwhelmingly endorsed at an election in 1966. By 1970, it was distinctly unpopular. This was no matter of the war dragging on. It was because of a lot of campaigning and persuasion, and not merely in the streets, but in all sorts of public forums, societies, churches and parliaments. It took similar campaigns to make apartheid unpopular - although a good many Australians of conservative persuasion were practical good friends, and</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">defenders, of apartheid South Africa almost to the end. Using the law to cut off a serious practical evil can be, in the right circumstances, a quick way to get results. But it often has its costs. US politics lives with the legacy of abortion rights coming from the judges, via an imaginative extrapolation of the right to privacy, rather than through the legislatures. For many of the more turbulent Christian right, that judicial decision was an immoral deal breaker that stripped not only the courts, but the very social fabric and national government, of moral authority and legitimacy. A major reason for the modern US revolt against national politicians is because a significant number of Americans no longer respect or assent to the system. Likewise, Canadian politics has suffered because progressive courts have anticipated human rights and been prepared to impose them on sometimes unwilling and dissenting subjects. With all of this happening, it is ironic that Scott Morrison, now Treasurer rather than master of <b>boat</b> people punishment, is making just the mistakes in successful tax policy formation that his opponents made over <b>boat</b> people policy. Perhaps it is karma, or kismet. Or perhaps it is because he is now, as it were, out of his depth.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Nicole Hasham   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>470 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A004</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Department chief Michael Pezzullo and Major-General Andrew Bottrell, Commander of Operation Sovereign Borders Joint Task Force, appear before the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee on Friday. Photo: ALEX ELLINGHAUSEN Conflicting stories at cash-for-turnbacks inquiry</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Nicole Hasham</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>boat</b> was stocked with provisions and the crew was skilled. When Australian officials boarded, the vessel was not in distress, and had not asked for help. Authorities mistreated the passengers, then handed over $US32,000 ($A44,500) to make the problem go away. Or perhaps the <b>boat</b> was in desperate straits and called for help. The weather was rough and forecast to worsen; without help, the occupants may have died. Australian officials boarded and kept everyone safe. Money may or may not have changed hands. These are two conflicting accounts by <b>asylum</b> seekers and the government of what occurred on the</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">high seas in May last year, when passengers and Indonesian police claim Australian officials bribed the crew of a <b>boat</b> of <b>asylum</b> seekers to return to Indonesia. The reports were scrutinised at a Senate hearing on Friday. The government does not deny it made the alleged payments, which would have involved taxpayer money funding a potentially illegal practice, which critics say would have put lives at risk. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has claimed "public interest immunity" and refused to provide information about the alleged payments to the inquiry. Government senators Dean Smith and Ian Macdonald on Friday suggested there was a lack of definitive evidence that the payments</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">occurred, saying the allegations were based on media speculation and an investigation by <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span>, the credibility of which they questioned. Legal experts, including human rights lawyer David Manne, told the hearing that the government was essentially telling the public to "just trust us", leaving the serious allegations unresolved. "That is a wholly unsatisfactory response," he said. <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span> has called for a Royal Commission into the incident, while Mr Manne suggested a special commission of Parliament could be established, to take confidential evidence. Immigration Department chief Michael Pezzullo said Operation Sovereign Borders, the taskforce</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">involved in the alleged incident, operated under ministerial direction and took official legal advice. Labor Senator Katy Gallagher said Parliament was responsible for keeping the Minister accountable, but was being kept in the dark. "We've got the government talking to the government, taking legal advice from the government, which then advises the government that what the government is doing is in accordance with the government policy," she said. Stephanie Cousins, of <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span>, said people on board, believed to include a pregnant woman and children, reported that some were forced to spend a night on the deck of the <b>boat</b> during rain. The inquiry is due to report on March 15.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Conflicting tales at inquiry into turnbacks cash</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Nicole Hasham   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>305 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>boat</b> was stocked with provisions, the crew was skilled. When Australian officials boarded, the vessel was not in distress and had not asked for help. Authorities mistreated the passengers and then handed over $US32,000 ($A44,500) to make the problem go away.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Or perhaps the <b>boat</b> was in desperate straits and called for help. The weather was rough and forecast to worsen; without help the occupants may have died. Australian officials boarded and kept everyone safe. Money may or may not have changed hands.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These are two conflicting accounts by <b>asylum</b> seekers and the government of what occurred on the high seas in May last year, when passengers and Indonesian police claim Australian officials bribed the crew of a <b>boat</b> of <b>asylum</b> seekers to return to Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The reports were scrutinised at a Senate hearing on Friday. The government does not deny it made the alleged payments, which would have involved taxpayer money funding a potentially illegal practice. Critics say that would have put lives at risk.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has claimed "public interest immunity" and refused to provide information about the alleged payments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Department chief Michael Pezzullo said Operation Sovereign Borders, the taskforce involved, operated under ministerial direction and took official legal advice.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stephanie Cousins, of <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span>, said people on the vessel, believed to include a pregnant woman and children, reported that some were forced to spend a night on deck of the <b>boat</b>, unprotected and without medical treatment, during heavy rain.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Major-General Andrew Bottrell said passengers were left on the deck, with life jackets, because the <b>boat</b> was at risk of sinking in rough seas, and it would have been easier to rescue them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The inquiry is due to report on March 15.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>THE WORD</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ROLY SUSSEX   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>371 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canvas</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The current humanitarian crises in Syria and Iraq have brought the word “<b>refugee</b>” into the forefront of our minds and media with special urgency.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We borrowed the word “<b>refugee</b>” from French in the 17th century. It originally denoted someone seeking refuge, especially someone forced to flee their home or country for fear for their life and safety. The factors which drove them out were violent and threatening: religion, ethnicity, politics, ideas, economics, and human-induced persecutions.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">You can also be a <b>refugee</b> from natural disasters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The word “<b>refugee</b>” was used of people fleeing New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 – though many preferred to be called ‘‘evacuees’’, people who have been forced to leave usually by natural disasters, but hope to return.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So the term “<b>refugee</b>” can be used loosely for various kinds of involuntary flight from danger.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But “<b>refugee</b>” also has a special legal status because of the United Nations <b>Refugee</b> Convention of 1951, to which Australia is a signatory. Refugees have a right to avoid refoulement, another French word, meaning forced repatriation to their home country, if they have a well-founded fear for their wellbeing. They have a right to “<b>asylum</b>”, which comes from the Greek word for “refuge”. Or “sanctuary”, originally meaning a safe holy place where fugitives were immune from pursuit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is therefore a big difference between a <b>refugee</b> and people who voluntarily leave their homeland: migrants, emigrants (leaving) and immigrants (arriving), expatriates (living elsewhere, possibly on their own volition), escapees (someone who has managed to get out, from whatever), defectors and deserters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Other words are less specific about the causes of the leaving. “Displaced people” have been forced out of their homeland, especially by other humans.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Internally displaced people” are still in their homeland. Neither group formally has the protection afforded by <b>refugee</b> status.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All of this shows why <b>boat</b> people are so anxious to be recognised as “refugees” rather than “illegal immigrants”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Members of my Polish wife’s family were refugees from communism after World War II s o I am particularly sensitive to the word “<b>refugee</b>”, and to those who now see us and our country as a refuge, <b>asylum</b> or sanctuary.sussex@uq.edu.au</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Just hours too late to escape Nauru nightmare</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PAIGE TAYLOR, EXCLUSIVE </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>531 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Feresh­teh Hosseini knew she and her husband were never going to be the faces on placards at Let Them Stay rallies around the nation yesterday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Theirs is a common story of a middle-class couple from Tehran who fled the oppression of Iran’s Islamic republic, then paid a smuggler to take them by <b>boat</b> from Indonesia to the Australian territory of Christmas Island.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is something thousands of their countrymen had done after Labor softened border policies in 2008.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, Ms Hosseini and her husband, Mehdi Bimcheshmian, just missed out on a chance for a new life in Australia — they landed on July 20, 2013, the morning after then prime minister Kevin Rudd slammed the door on ­<b>asylum</b>-seekers arriving by <b>boat</b>. They were literally a few hours too late, and spent five months on the Australian island without being allowed to make an <b>asylum</b> claim. They were then flown to the South Pacific island of Nauru for 14 months.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now in Perth, they are among <b>asylum</b>-seekers transferred from offshore centres to the Australian mainland for medical treatment or mental health reasons, 37 of whom are babies born in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These infants have come to represent the most poignant ­aspect of an urgent struggle to spare the group — 267 people altogether — having to return to Nauru or Manus Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Wednesday’s High Court decision confirming the legality of Australia’s offshore processing ­arrangements has cleared the way for mass returns.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Hosseini, 29, and Mr Bimcheshmian, 34, accept that ­<b>asylum</b>-seekers with children or chronic illness are the most vulnerable and therefore the most likely to receive a sought-after intervention from Immigration Minister Peter Dutton.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I believe Australia will send us back to Nauru and my husband will die. “Because we don’t have any children, they don’t care about us,” Ms Hosseini said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She and Mr Bimcheshmian had been flown from Nauru to Darwin for Ms Hosseini to ­undergo medical tests including a colonoscopy, just as the Australian Human Rights Law Centre’s legal challenge to offshore pro-cessing halted the Department of Immigration and Border Protection’s plan to fly the couple back.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Perth, they are effectively in detention; a guard is at the premises at all times and visitors must be approved in advance by immigration contractor Serco.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, they say life is still far better than it was on Nauru. Ms Hosseini said guards on Nauru characterised her husband’s self-harm attempts as troublemaking but in Perth their mental health was taken seriously and both attended counselling with an organisation called Life Resolutions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They care for us,” she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Hosseini said her husband had been a senior manager at the University of Tehran when he was wrongly accused of taking part in a student protest.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She said they knew they had to leave Iran after he was beaten twice by government stooges.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since arriving on the Aus­tralian mainland, they have been baptised as Christians, are building friendships and trying not to think about when it might end.“I always have nightmares about Nauru,” Ms Hosseini said.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Doctors reveal young children 'expressed intent to self-harm'</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Nicole Hasham  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>711 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stress disorder - <span class="companylink">Human Rights Commission</span> sounds warning - OFFSHORE DETENTION</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ninety-five per cent of <b>asylum</b>-seeker children who have lived at Nauru are at risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder, a medical team led by the <span class="companylink">Australian Human Rights Commission</span> has found, in research that will fuel calls for <b>asylum</b> seekers in Australia to be saved from returning to offshore detention.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The team interviewed children at Darwin's Wickham Point detention centre, most of whom had spent several months at Nauru, and found they were among the most traumatised children the paediatricians had seen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The researchers concluded that immigration detention at Nauru and Wickham Point centre is harmful to the physical and mental health of young children and youth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The commission's president Gillian Triggs strongly urged the federal government not to return the children to Nauru, following a High Court decision on Wednesday that declared offshore detention was lawful. There are 267 people slated to fly back to the Pacific island, including almost 100 children and babies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">During question time on Thursday, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull deflected a demand by Greens MP Adam Bandt that he guarantee the children would not be sent offshore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull said the Greens did not have a "monopoly on empathy" and that softer border policies advocated by that party would result in "thousands of deaths at sea".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Every single one of us is anguished by the prospect, by the reality of children in detention," Mr Turnbull said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The medical team assessed children aged over eight who had previously lived at Nauru, using a childhood trauma screening questionnaire. It found 95 per cent were in the "clinical" range, which signifies a risk of post-traumatic stress disorder.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The researchers found that all children screened using the so-called "parent evaluation of development" scale were in the top two ranges for development risk, "higher than any published results for this screening tool anywhere in the world".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Experienced paediatricians Elizabeth Elliott and Hasantha Gunasekera took part in the commission's visit to Wickham Point in October.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dr Gunasekera said the doctors were "deeply disturbed by the numbers of young children who expressed intent to self-harm and talked openly about suicide and by those who had already self-harmed".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Professor Elliott said: "Many of the children had palpable anticipatory trauma at mention of return to Nauru ... Nauru is a totally inappropriate place for <b>asylum</b>-seeking children to live, either in the detention centre or in the community."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The doctors warned no child detained on the mainland should be sent to Nauru under any circumstances.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton and his department were provided with the findings in November. Mr Dutton has since indicated that the <b>asylum</b> seekers would be quickly returned to Nauru following the High Court decision.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Thursday the minister said the government would examine each case individually, but warned that unauthorised <b>boat</b> arrivals found not to be refugees would be sent to Nauru, if they did not return to their country of origin.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The researchers found that detention centre staff lacked understanding of the "cumulative impact of one episode of trauma upon another".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"For example, some children had witnessed atrocities at home, survived a traumatic <b>boat</b> trip, had been moved between several onshore to offshore detention centres, were traumatised by the presence of uniformed guards and actions such as head counts and had palpable anticipatory trauma at mention of return to Nauru," the report said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"There was a mismatch between the level of mental health and the level of paediatric psychiatrists and psychologists with appropriate training in managing children. This must urgently be addressed."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Parents reported concerns about their own and their children's health.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Examples include: reports of recurrent abdominal pain, headaches, nausea, vomiting, poor feeding, poor sleeping and poor weight gain in young children," the report said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A 12-year-old had chronic hypertension and another child with a metabolic disorder diagnosed in his homeland had not yet seen a paediatrician in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">95%</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">of children found to be in the "clinical" range, which signifies a risk of post-traumatic stress disorder.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to research by medical team led by the <span class="companylink">Australian Human Rights Commission</span>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>hreoc : Australian Human Rights Commission</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gihea : Infant/Child/Teenage Health | gstres : Stress-related Illnesses | gcat : Political/General News | ggroup : Demographic Health | ghea : Health | gmed : Medical Conditions | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ghum : Human Rights/Civil Liberties | gcom : Society/Community</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nauru : Nauru | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | pacisz : Pacific Islands</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SMHH000020160204ec250004k</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-COUMAI0020160204ec250004g" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Taxpayers hit with <b>refugee</b> $1m legal bill</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DANIEL MEERS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>326 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TAXPAYERS are more than $1 million out of pocket because of a <b>refugee</b> High Court challenge to the Government’s offshore processing laws that was overwhelmingly quashed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The High Court has ordered those that ran the failed challenge to the validity of Australia’s involvement in Nauru to cover the Government’s costs in fighting the challenge, but the Government concedes it is unlikely taxpayers will be refunded.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Government refused to say how much had been spent on defending the High Court challenge, but The Courier-Mail has been told the legal fees are more than $1 million.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton yesterday confirmed he was in discussions with multiple nations about creating a “third country option” to send <b>asylum</b> seekers to, ­instead of Nauru. It is understood that Malaysia is the most likely.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Government will send the 267 <b>asylum</b> seekers who came to Australia for medical treatment back to Nauru or their own country once they are deemed physically and mentally well enough to do so.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A deal to send the <b>asylum</b> seekers to a third nation would create an opportunity for those on Nauru to start a genuine life. Australia has a deal with Cambodia but only one family was sent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton yesterday confirmed the Government would not bow to pressure over keeping the <b>asylum</b> seekers, including more than 30 babies, in Australia if they are fit to be moved back to Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“If you seek to come by <b>boat</b>, you won’t be settled in our country,” he said. “Once people have received medical attention and they are right to go back to Nauru, they can go back.” Mr Dutton said he wanted to be the minister that freed children from detention, but the border-protection policy could not be weakened.He said he doubted tax­payers would ever be refunded for the costs of fighting the High Court challenge.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>843 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Churches risk more deaths THE offer of religious “sanctuary’’ to <b>asylum</b> seekers facing deportation to Nauru will spread false hope among desperate people and risks the return of people smugglers’ boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The concept of sanctuary, which is based on a centuries-old Christian tradition, has no standing in law. But it is an emotional straw likely to be grasped by <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two hundred and sixty-seven <b>asylum</b> seekers are living in Australia while they seek medical attention. They include women who have allegedly been sexually assaulted and babies who have been born here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As reported in the Herald Sun, the High Court has upheld the right of the Government to process <b>asylum</b> seekers in offshore detention, which has caused the churches’ reaction to their planned return.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The churches’ offer of sanctuary also offers the people smugglers a chance to relaunch their leaky boats. They will see the response as a breakdown in resolve that will lead to policy change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The growing number of churches offering sanctuary are putting themselves in direct opposition to the Government on “moral” grounds as opposed to the “legal” imprimatur granted to the Government by the High Court.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The churches, which appear to have followed the lead of Anglican Dean of Brisbane Peter Catt, need to be reminded of the 1200 <b>asylum</b> seekers who drowned during Labor’s years in government when people smugglers’ boats arrived on a daily basis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The lives saved by the stop-the-boats policy of the former Abbott government, supported by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, will be for nothing if the emotional reaction of the churches encourages the people smugglers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not only has the border protection policy stopped an appalling loss of life, it has led to Australia being in control of its borders and able accept 12,000 refugees from Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Because European countries have not been able to control the flow of <b>asylum</b> seekers from the Syrian civil war, men, women and children have drowned in their hundreds trying to reach their shores by <b>boat</b>. Still the drownings continue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It will be a renewed human catastrophe if hundreds more <b>asylum</b> seekers are to lose their lives coming to Australia because the need to save them from themselves is lost in the emotions of this issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Anglican Church admits that opening its doors to <b>asylum</b> seekers in defiance of the law will lead to a confrontation with authority.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It may suit well-meaning clergy heeding the call, but it will not help the <b>asylum</b> seekers. Dr Catt in Brisbane envisages “the appalling spectacle” of authorities storming his cathedral to remove those seeking sanctuary. He provokes a further divide by asking that authorities “leave their weapons outside as a mark of respect”. His words seem calculated to inflame. Police forcing <b>asylum</b> seekers to leave a church at gunpoint is unimaginable in this country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What is more likely to happen, if <b>asylum</b> seekers living in the community take up the offer, is a standoff that will resolve nothing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dr Catt and the clerics falling in behind him are not only placing themselves above the law, they are challenging Parliament, where the Labor Party has now joined the Coalition in supporting Australia’s border protection policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is a need to recognise the parlous state of <b>asylum</b> seekers in need of medical care and protection. Many of these people have suffered greatly in countries they have fled.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">None of those in the group facing deportation have been defined as refugees. That process is still under way and whatever their reasons for putting themselves on people smugglers’ boats they deserve to be treated compassionately.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says he will not “send kids into harm’s way”, although more may still need to be done by the Government to reassure Australians that Nauru is safe for women and children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The reaction of well-meaning people to the plight of people who have suffered hardship is understandable but there must be some respect for Australia’s laws. The fact that some of those to be sent to Nauru were born in Australia also calls for deeper consideration.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THERE are medical concerns that prolonged detention has had severe impacts on the mental and physical welfare of children held on Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Doctors said some children who spent months in detention were among the most traumatised they had seen in 50 years of their combined professional experience and deporting families would further compromise their health.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What has stopped the people smugglers’ boats, and their desperate human cargo, is a policy that clearly warns anyone who undertakes the voyage that they will not be allowed to settle here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia, in accepting its responsibilities rather than abandoning them, is looking to resettle <b>asylum</b> seekers in other countries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The response of the churches is heartfelt, but risks a return to mass drownings at sea and assists those who wish to exploit the plight of <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The churches must ask themselves if they are contributing to an impending disaster.The people smugglers will see it as an opportunity.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Traumatised kids have threatened self-harm</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NATASHA BITA   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>313 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Children detained in a Darwin immig­ration centre have threatened to jump off buildings, eat sand or drink shampoo in a bid for release, an <span class="companylink">Australian Human Rights Commission</span> report reveals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The report says children as young as nine are being given sleeping tablets at the Wickham Point immigration centre.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One child had contracted typhoi­d on the island of Nauru, the offshore processing centre for ­<b>asylum</b>-seekers who try to reach Australia by <b>boat</b>, and several allegations of sexual assault were still being investigated.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The damning report on the health of 76 children in detention was compiled by Elizabeth Elliott, professor of pediatrics at the University of Sydney, and Hasantha Gunasekera, a pediatrician at the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network. “We were deeply disturbed by the numbers of young children who expressed intent to self-harm and talked openly about suicide and by those who had already self-harmed,’’ they concluded.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Some children had witnessed atrocities at home, survived a traumatic <b>boat</b> trip, had been moved between several onshore and offshore detention centres, were traumatised by the presence of uniformed guards and actions such as headcounts, and had palpable anticipatory trauma at the mention of return to Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The only appropriate management of this situation is remova­l of children from the toxic detention environment which is causing and/or exacerbating mental health.’’ The doctors said all children should be removed from immig­ration detention facilities and none should be returned to Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Their report says children at the Wickham Point centre are only allowed to access play equipment for an hour a day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It recommends that <span class="companylink">Serco</span> guards cease their 5am and 10pm “headcounts’’, which disturb and frighten the children.Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said yesterday <b>asylum</b>-seekers would be sent back to Nauru once they had received “approp­riate medical treatment’’.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>hreoc : Australian Human Rights Commission</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>ghea : Health | gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nauru : Nauru | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | pacisz : Pacific Islands</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020160204ec250000f</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AFNR000020160204ec250002c" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Opinion</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Asylum</b> seeker policy: Limbo is not an attractive dance</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Laura Tingle - Laura Tingle is The Australian Financial Review's political editor.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1199 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>43</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Canberra observed</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both sides of politics breathed a sigh of relief when <b>asylum</b> seeker policy was declared legal this week, but there's no room for smugness.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When the High Court ruled this week that Australia's offshore detention regime was lawful, both sides of politics were able to quietly put their contingency plans for an alternative outcome back on the shelf.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Work being done on Christmas Island - to prepare a now effectively empty detention centre for an influx of detainees from Manus Island and Nauru - could stop.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Work being done in Canberra to prepare new legislation to offset the Court's ruling could also be put to one side.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For a bit longer, it seems, we can all continue to live with the fiction that we have "solved" the <b>asylum</b> seeker issue, unlike those dopey Europeans.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But of course we haven't. The boats have mostly stopped, though Immigration Minister Peter Dutton appeared to confirm on Thursday that a few still keep coming.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Australia has removed more than 20 boats from our waters over the past two years", he says. In August last year, he said, there had been 20 boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But as Dutton himself says in the same statement, regional processing "provides a further deterrent to people who might otherwise attempt to travel illegally by <b>boat</b> to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"My message is that there are only two outcomes for people who travel illegally by <b>boat</b> to Australia: they will be intercepted and turned back from Australian waters or they will be sent to another country for processing."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stopping the boats is the "go-to" achievement of the Abbott period, and is generally linked to the turnback policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it is offshore processing that remains the most potent weapon in Australia's hostile approach to <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The numbers started to fall as soon as Kevin Rudd announced, in a spectacular backflip in July 2013, that people arriving by <b>boat</b> would not be settled in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The number of boats dropped from 48 in July to 25 in August, 15 in September and five in October and November. The number of <b>asylum</b> seekers arriving each month dropped from 4230 to 208.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just seven boats arrived in December, the month of the first Abbott turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both parties remain firmly committed to offshore detention, but in the light of this week's High Court decision, we saw once again that - whatever its implications for the people stuck in the system - this policy is not without pain or problems for politicians or for the country. For the public there were the confronting images of babies born in Australia who may be sent back to Nauru now the High Court's ruling has been handed down.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For the politicians there was the discomfort of trying to justify such a course of action. The days when you could quietly fudge on such issues have clearly gone.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dutton appears to be finding a way of bureaucratically letting the babies (and their families) stay in Australia while not officially doing so, by arguing that "we're not going to put children into harm's way, we're going to work individually through each of the cases".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For the Greens and refugees advocates, and for the churches saying they will give sanctuary to <b>asylum</b> seekers, this is clearly not satisfactory.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it is hard to escape the conclusion that, by demanding an alternative solution, they are giving the government no room to move in a world where neither side of politics is going to change the underlying policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 2012 expert panel on <b>asylum</b> seekers headed by Angus Houston recommended offshore processing as part of a solution to break a political deadlock on <b>asylum</b> seeker policy. But its recommendations were that processing facilities on Manus Island and Nauru be established as part of a "comprehensive regional network", and recommended the pursuit of the so-called "Malaysian solution", among other changes in policy. Offshore processing was only ever supposed to be a temporary salve.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are some 1500 people stuck on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island and on Nauru. The Abbott, and now Turnbull, governments wander the world seeking an increasingly unlikely home for these people, some of whom have been in detention for four years. We have spent $55 million on a "solution" in Cambodia - which took three refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is an uneasy silence about the relationship with Papua New Guinea and the once-mooted plan to resettle <b>asylum</b> seekers there. PNG wants more money in return for being helpful, and <b>asylum</b> seeker policy has become another complicating factor in our relationship with our troubled former colony.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The agenda for the visit last year to Iran by Minister for Foreign Affairs, Julie Bishop, was heavily influenced by our quiet desperation at trying to be able to send hundreds of Iranians home. Now it emerges we are once again talking to Malaysia - the country with whom the Labor government was doing a deal in 2012, which was supposedly so abhorrent to the Coalition and the cause of human decency.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But perhaps an even bigger cost in the past four years has been that Australia has become a pariah on the issue of <b>asylum</b> seekers. When large parts of the world are trying to come to terms with the arrival of tens of thousands of refugees every day, the interest in helping us find a resolution to our problems is not high on the list. This has had a material impact on our capacity to try and generate some momentum for a general agreement in the region about how to deal with <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even as conservatives point smugly to the debacle in Europe as an endorsement of hard-line policies, the relevance to the southern hemisphere of what is happening in the north is being lost.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That is, that the lack of a coherent and agreed policy on <b>asylum</b> seekers in Europe has created all sorts of problems for everyone concerned.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet if Europe was to seal its borders tomorrow and the human wave was to once again head south, there is an equal lack of agreement between Australia and its regional neighbours about how to deal with it. Border security remains a potent issue that continues to constrain our politicians, even if it has disappeared from the day-to-day news.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It says something about our priorities that, according to the Remuneration Tribunal, the Australian Border Force Commissioner Roman Quaedvlieg is paid more - on a total remuneration package of $605,800 - than the Chiefs of the Navy, the Army or the Air Force. Yet we know very little about what Border Force does, and accept a culture of secrecy that would not be tolerated in other arms of government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While we can put a relative price on the value of Border Force, our politicians, it seems, cannot find a way of bringing any subtlety to a very difficult policy area that would allow them, as well as us, some confidence our policy positions are anywhere near as successful as we all like to pretend.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gent : Arts/Entertainment | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | nrvw : Reviews | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfce : C&E Exclusion Filter | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | nauru : Nauru | auscap : Australian Capital Territory | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | pacisz : Pacific Islands</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AFNR000020160204ec250002c</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020160204ec250001l" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Nauru tests our integrity</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1577 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>B001</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nauru tests our integrity</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The history of <b>asylum</b> seeker policy in Australia will be one of self-deception and political expediency.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Continued page 4</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">W</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">onderful idea, sovereignty. It conveys this reassuring sense of control; a sense that on each of our own patches, we're in charge and things happen by some exercise of our own free choice. And maybe that sense isn't an illusion. Maybe, for example, Nauru just happened to choose to open a "regional processing centre" for <b>asylum</b> seekers. And maybe it just happened to put an Australian government office in it. And maybe it just happened to ask the people in that office - who just happen to be Australians - if they could wear Australian government uniforms with the Australian coat of arms on them while they deal with the detainees in that centre. Maybe it's mere happenstance that Nauru has made visas all but impossible for journalists to obtain if they want to scrutinise these detention arrangements, in a</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">manner eerily similar to the way the Australian government routinely denies journalists access to our own detention centres. Maybe that same happenstance accounts for the fact that the single journalist to have been the exception to this rule in the past two years is a dedicated supporter of the Australian government's <b>asylum</b>-seeker policies. And maybe Nauru's sudden decision to open the gates of its detention centre so its detainees could roam freely around (but not leave) Nauru had nothing</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">whatsoever to do with the fact that the Australian government was - at precisely the same time - in danger of losing a case in the High Court that would bring its offshore detention regime crashing down. And maybe all that has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the Australian government pays for that centre. And nothing to do with the fact under our government's agreement with Nauru, we have the right to step in and take over the centre when ever we like. Maybe all this is some completely free, unbounded choice of Nauru's that miraculously happens to coincide with the Australian government's interests again and again. So maybe it's true that while the arrival of boats of <b>asylum</b> seekers in our waters is severe enough to mean people smugglers are robbing us of our sovereignty, our own official, uniformed control of</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nauru's detention centre some how leaves theirs perfectly intact. Or maybe that's all crap. It matters because whatever it is, we're building our <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy on it. That has been true for years now. Perhaps you've noticed how often when controversy arrives, say in the form of some act of abuse in these detention centres, these things become matters for Nauru. Nauru has become a screen behind which we hide our own culpability; its sovereignty a charade, really - a sort of legal fiction we use to obscure the consequences of our own policy even as we claim its successes. This week we learned those consequences might have included the rape of a five-year-old boy. And this week, the High Court confirmed the government has every legal right to send him straight back to the scene of that alleged crime. And who could honestly claim to be surprised if</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">the government did exactly that? The horror of this thought is obvious. But perhaps the greatest horror is that as a nation, we've now become so hopelessly addicted to the fictions that justify it. It's not just the fiction of Nauru. It's also the fiction of Australia, which you might recall we've declared simply doesn't exist if you're coming here by <b>boat</b>. You can dock in Sydney Harbour if you like, and as far as the law is concerned, you simply never arrived here. But there's also the fiction that Nauru and Papua New Guinea were ever anything more than a dumping ground for us. If these countries were truly something more, we'd have known from the beginning how the <b>asylum</b> seekers we were sending there would be resettled. Or indeed that it was going to happen at all. But there was never any plan. There</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nauru: How long can we keep lying to ourselves?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From page 1</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">still isn't. The "regional processing centre" in Nauru seems drastically misnamed given precious little processing is actually happening. Remember last year when we heard the 600 remaining detainees on Nauru would be processed within a week? Many weeks on, 537 remain. This as we've paid Cambodia $55 million to resettle almost nobody (or four nobodies to be precise). And while we've been belatedly scouring the region looking for</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">countries to take <b>asylum</b> seekers off our hands, we've flatly rejected an offer from New Zealand to resettle 150 of them each year. Resettlement in New Zealand, you see, would encourage more boats. Note, here, the tacit admission that our policy is to send them to places so bad they couldn't possibly want to live there. Only then, it seems, will they stop coming. It's a problem that goes back to the very inception of this policy, implemented in the last throes of Kevin Rudd's political career. Labor's present objection that people were</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">not meant to be "languishing in indefinite detention" is so profoundly hypocritical because it ignores that the Rudd government had never arranged anything else. Ultimately, this whole issue exists in a world of make-believe: make-believe borders, make- believe compliance with the <b>refugee</b> convention, and make- believe resettlement policy. Among all the moral injuries we've inflicted on ourselves in this sordid area of politics - and there are many - the most overlooked is how adept we've become at lying to</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ourselves. One day, when the history of this period is written, it will be a story of how successive governments have legislated their lies. How John Howard, then Julia Gillard made real their pretence that <b>boat</b> arrivals never got here, so we could be good international citizens yet still owe these people nothing. How Tony Abbott passed a law in June last year to ensure Rudd's Nauru arrangement was legal, and how that law pretended it had been in force ever since 2012. I don't know if we can do this forever; if eventually our lawmaking won't be able to outrun our lying. But I know that buried in this week's High Court judgment is unanimous agreement the government simply cannot detain people indefinitely on Nauru. At some point, the clock runs out. And on that day, maybe the alarm will sound on these mighty fictions that have been sustaining us. Then who will we be?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Waleed Aly is a Fairfax Media columnist and a lecturer in politics at <span class="companylink">Monash University</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">still isn't. The "regional processing centre" in Nauru seems drastically misnamed given precious little processing is actually happening. Remember last year when we heard the 600 remaining detainees on Nauru would be processed within a week? Many weeks on, 537 remain. This as we've paid Cambodia $55 million to resettle almost nobody (or four nobodies to be precise). And while we've been belatedly scouring the region looking for</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">countries to take <b>asylum</b> seekers off our hands, we've flatly rejected an offer from New Zealand to resettle 150 of them each year. Resettlement in New Zealand, you see, would encourage more boats. Note, here, the tacit admission that our policy is to send them to places so bad they couldn't possibly want to live there. Only then, it seems, will they stop coming. It's a problem that goes back to the very inception of this policy, implemented in the last throes of Kevin Rudd's political career. Labor's present objection that people were</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">not meant to be "languishing in indefinite detention" is so profoundly hypocritical because it ignores that the Rudd government had never arranged anything else. Ultimately, this whole issue exists in a world of make-believe: make-believe borders, make- believe compliance with the <b>refugee</b> convention, and make- believe resettlement policy. Among all the moral injuries we've inflicted on ourselves in this sordid area of politics - and there are many - the most overlooked is how adept we've become at lying to</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ourselves. One day, when the history of this period is written, it will be a story of how successive governments have legislated their lies. How John Howard, then Julia Gillard made real their pretence that <b>boat</b> arrivals never got here, so we could be good international citizens yet still owe these people nothing. How Tony Abbott passed a law in June last year to ensure Rudd's Nauru arrangement was legal, and how that law pretended it had been in force ever since 2012. I don't know if we can do this forever; if eventually our lawmaking won't be able to outrun our lying. But I know that buried in this week's High Court judgment is unanimous agreement the government simply cannot detain people indefinitely on Nauru. At some point, the clock runs out. And on that day, maybe the alarm will sound on these mighty fictions that have been sustaining us. Then who will we be?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Waleed Aly is a Fairfax Media columnist and a lecturer in politics at <span class="companylink">Monash University</span>.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | nauru : Nauru | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | pacisz : Pacific Islands</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020160204ec250001l</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AGEE000020160203ec240002m" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Opinion - Leaders</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>End offshore detention of refugees now</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>604 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nothing changes with the High Court's latest decision on the legality of Australia's offshore detention regime. Nothing. And that is a dreadful shame of this government's making and those that preceded it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hundreds of <b>asylum</b> seekers, who came here seeking refuge from persecution, are still being held on Nauru and Manus Island years after their boats were intercepted. They have no prospect of real freedom, no certainty about their lives, no political enfranchisement, no voice and little hope of anything changing.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For a nation that purports to open its arms to refugees, Australia practises deadening hypocrisy. It deliberately subverts human rights principles and disregards its duties under international conventions, while assuming for itself a level of moral righteousness for having stopped boatloads of desperate people from drowning at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That claim to moral rectitude is castrated by the government's unfair and inhumane policy of using other people - real refugees - as playthings to be pinned on remote islands so that their "wrong", in trying to come here by <b>boat</b> (which, in fact, is entirely legal), might be a "message of deterrence" for others.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Successive governments have contrived a macrame of legislative devices and bilateral memos of agreement with Papua New Guinea and Nauru in order to obscure the chain of responsibility over <b>asylum</b> seekers. A majority of the High Court has affirmed that the detention is, in a strict legal sense, in the hands of the foreign powers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Most of the High Court judges found the restrictions on <b>asylum</b> seekers' liberty in Nauru were "to be regarded as the independent exercise of sovereign legislative and executive power by Nauru"; in short, it is Nauru that detains the <b>asylum</b> seekers, not the Commonwealth. But there was one stirring voice of dissent in this decision.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It came from the newest member of the bench, Justice Michelle Gordon. She said the government intended to, and did, exercise restraint over <b>asylum</b> seekers' liberty on Nauru, and that was evidenced by Australia's "acts and conduct", including - and this jumps off the page - that the Commonwealth "asserted the right by its servants or agents [<span class="companylink">Transfield Services</span> etc] to assault detainees and physically restrain them".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Justice Gordon's main argument is that the detention function is "exclusively judicial in character" and the provision in the Migration Act that vests a detention function in the executive arm of government is not permitted. She says the common law principle regarding detention of foreigners was set out in a 1992 High Court decision, but that principle has been contravened by the government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia causes <b>asylum</b> seekers to be on these islands. It funds and facilitates the arrangements, and contracts the services of the companies that detain them. It plucks <b>asylum</b> seekers off the islands when they require appropriate medical care here, then it deposits them right back in the sad, desolate state that hundreds have endured for years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This cannot go on indefinitely. As we have said previously, the time has come for an amnesty. <b>Asylum</b> seekers want to be productive members of our community. They want hope. They deserve better than this wasteful and now aimless policy that promotes despair and human damage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Principles of humanity demand an amnesty. Logic supports it. The government still has not articulated what it plans next for these people, and that is a failing in itself. Instead, Australia must help to devise practical and effective policies in Asia to thwart people traffickers at their source. No government should exploit the helpless circumstances of desperate people to further their own political aims.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>PM under pressure as court clears returns</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Nicole Hasham, Michael Gordon   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>690 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First Drop-in</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum</b> seekers Warning of backlash against the government - OFFSHORE DETENTION</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has vowed the government's hardline border stance is unshakable after the High Court ruled offshore detention was lawful, but stopped short of saying when 250 <b>asylum</b> seekers will be flown to Nauru.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a 6-1 verdict, the court on Wednesday ruled that the federal government has the power under the constitution to detain people in other countries, clearing the way for the return of more than 220 <b>asylum</b> seekers to Nauru, as well as 37 babies born in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton had signalled the government's intention to move quickly, declaring last month that the transfer would leave only seven children in mainland detention, but Mr Turnbull is under pressure from church and advocacy groups and some Liberal MPs to be cautious.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Victorian backbencher Russell Broadbent appealed to the Prime Minister to gradually transfer those on Nauru and Manus Island to Australia - while continuing with the policies that have stopped the boats: <b>boat</b> turn-backs and the policy of processing any future arrivals on Nauru and Manus Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Mr Broadbent said any move to transfer the children, and women who say they are victims of sexual assault, back to Nauru would prompt a backlash against the government. "I don't think Malcolm wants that," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">Australian Human Rights Commission</span> will also release a report on Thursday that president Gillian Triggs says will represent a powerful case for the government not to go ahead with the returns.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The report is the findings of medical experts who assessed children at the Wickham Point centre near Darwin who face being returned. Professor Triggs says the clinicians had never confronted such traumatised children, and the prospect of return was aggravating their condition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In question time on Wednesday, Mr Turnbull reiterated the government's resolve to deter <b>asylum</b> seekers and ensure "this pernicious, criminal trade of people smuggling cannot succeed", declaring: "The line has to be drawn somewhere and it is drawn at our border". But Mr Turnbull said the government would consider the decision "and its implications carefully".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton later said those brought to Australia for medical treatment would be returned once there was no need for that assistance, hinting that family members of those being treated who accompanied them to Australia would be the first to be returned. But he gave no timetable for returns.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor's immigration spokesman, Richard Marles, did not address the key issue of whether <b>asylum</b> seekers should be saved from returning to Nauru, but called on the government to immediately find ways to resettle refugees in third countries. He later signalled his expectation that the group would be returned to Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"People have been left to languish in processing centres without any certainty for their future ... without an urgent resolution, this government will be doing enormous damage to this <b>refugee</b> population," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Following the verdict, Human Rights Law Centre legal advocacy director Daniel Webb, whose organisation brought the case to court, said: "Legality is one thing. The morality is another.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It is fundamentally wrong to condemn these people to a life in limbo on a tiny island. The stroke of a pen is all that it would take our Prime Minister or our Immigration Minister to do the decent thing and let these families stay."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The test case was run on behalf of a Bangladeshi woman who was brought to Australia from Nauru in August 2014 for medical treatment. Supporters said the woman, who has a baby daughter, was "terrified" of returning to Nauru, where <b>asylum</b> seekers say they have suffered physical and sexual abuse, poor healthcare and inadequate living conditions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The woman argued that the Commonwealth's conduct, including restraining her liberty and entering into contracts to allow her detention, was not authorised by any valid Australian law.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The court ruled that the woman was not entitled to declare that her past detention was unlawful. It said the detention regime was authorised under the constitution and other laws.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Nauru all clear gives PM boost</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Andrew Tillett and Andrew Probyn   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>369 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Second</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016, West Australian Newspapers Limited   </td></tr>
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Malcolm Turnbull will continue Tony Abbott’s hardline approach to <b>boat</b> people, with the Government believing that if it did not return <b>asylum</b> seekers to Nauru there would be a “trail of self-harm”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After the High Court upheld the offshore processing regime, the Prime Minister declared no one should doubt the Government’s resolve to protect the borders, cruelling efforts to allow 267 <b>asylum</b> seekers to stay here.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Government believes <b>refugee</b> advocates are pedalling false hope by encouraging the belief that getting transferred to Australia on medical grounds would secure a permanent stay.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many of the 267 affected by the High Court ruling were brought to Australia after incidents of self-harm.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Immigration Department has not been able to substantiate claims a five-year-old <b>asylum</b> seeker boy was raped on Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is also understood that the Government has decided against activating an offer from New Zealand to accept up to 300 refugees from Nauru, believing this would become a “pull factor” that would encourage people smugglers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“People see New Zealand and Australia as the same, similar Medicare systems for example,” a source said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They would stay in New Zealand for a few years, become citizens and the next thing is they’d arrive in Sydney.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Human Rights Legal Centre launched the test case on behalf of a Bangladeshi woman transferred to Australia because of complications with her pregnancy. She gave birth in December 2014.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The court ruled 6-1 that her detention on Nauru was constitutional and did not strike down retrospective laws the Government rushed into Parliament with Labor support to shore up the offshore processing regime.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, several justices made clear <b>asylum</b> seekers could only be detained for as long as necessary.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The loss means 267 <b>asylum</b> seekers, including 37 babies born in Australia and 54 older children, face being deported.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The HRLC’s director of advocacy Daniel Webb said his client broke down in tears after the verdict. “She is now terrified that one night soon her and her child are going to be woken up, bundled on a plane and left to languish on Nauru,” he said.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Kids to be sent to Nauru after court <b>asylum</b> ruling</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DANIEL MEERS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>434 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MORE than 250 <b>asylum</b> seekers will be returned to detention on Nauru after the High Court quashed a challenge to the validity of Australia’s offshore processing laws.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The deportation list of 267 people sent here for medical treatment includes more than 30 babies born in Australia. All will be sent back to the tiny Pacific nation once deemed fit.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The full bench of the High Court, in a six-to-one majority, declared Australia had the statutory power to send the <b>asylum</b> seekers to Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull did not discuss the young children in detention yesterday but told Parliament the High Court challenge had strengthened the Government’s resolve to secure Australia’s borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was viewed as a clear message to people smugglers that he would not soften laws, despite being regarded as a moderate Prime Minister. He said: “The line has to be drawn somewhere and it is drawn at our border. Nobody should ever doubt the resolve of this Government to keep our borders secure, to prevent the people-smuggling racket, to break their business model and keep lives safe to prevent drownings at sea and to protect vulnerable people from being exploited by ruthless criminal gangs. The people smugglers will not prevail over our sovereignty.” The High Court ruled that while there were grounds to challenge the Government’s actions, the deal made with Nauru to accommodate Australia’s offshore <b>refugee</b> processing was constitutional.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The challenge was on the case of a Bangladeshi woman who was on a <b>boat</b> intercepted in October 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She was detained on Nauru before being sent to Australia to receive medical treatment and gave birth in this country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Refugee</b> advocates argued that it was not legal for the woman to be sent to Nauru, but the court’s primary judgment, written by Chief Justice Robert French, Mary Kiefel and Geoffrey Nettle, said that “there can be no doubt that the Commonwealth had the statutory power to remove the plaintiff from Australia to Nauru’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Only Justice Michelle Gordon found against the Government, stating that Section 198AHA of the Migration Act was “beyond power and therefore invalid”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Human Rights Law Centre is considering further legal options and says the woman is now terrified for her child.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Pilgrim Uniting Church in Adelaide, meanwhile, is reportedly one of 10 churches across the nation offering the <b>asylum</b> seekers “sanctuary” under an ancient Christian convention not recognised in law since the 16th century.CHILDREN TORTURED IN OUR NAME: WENDY TUOHY ADVERTISER.COM.AU</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Refugee</b> reports ignore real story</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Andrew Bolt   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>790 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IF there is one thing our politicians, police and press tend to lie about, it’s refugees. They fear the facts might turn you vicious or stubborn.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Germany, this hoax on the public finally exploded on New Year’s Eve — but few commentators have noted the parallels to Australia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last year the <span class="companylink">German Government</span> recklessly admitted 1.1 million “refugees”, most young Muslim men, but Chancellor Angela Merkel (right) insisted her country could absorb so many people from such different cultures.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Angela Merkel hailed as an angel of mercy,” gushed the Sydney Morning Herald. But on New Year’s Eve at least 1000 male foreigners gathered outside Cologne’s main railway station, and crying women were soon telling police they’d been attacked.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In all, more than 800 complaints of assault, rape and robbery were reported to police, who have so far identified 30 suspects, all African or Middle Eastern, and half refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet Cologne’s police at first lied, issuing a statement describing the night as “relaxed” and mostly “peaceful”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The media joined the cover-up. Germany’s public broadcaster, <span class="companylink">ZDF</span>, decided not to report the attacks on its 7pm Heute news show and later admitted it had made a “mistake” to “pussyfoot” around the truth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Most other media outlets at first used the euphemisms “youth” and “young men”, rather than say the perpetrators were foreigners.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then, when news of the assaults trickled out on <span class="companylink">Facebook</span>, the Mayor claimed it was “improper” to link the assaults to refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Germany is an extreme example, but the same pattern of cover-up and deflection happens in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Here are some of many examples of Australia’s politicians, police and media trying to hide or fudge inconvenient truths about immigrant crime, especially involving refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IN 2008 Victoria Police chief commissioner Christine Nixon claimed Sudanese refugees were “under-represented” in crime rates, when police figures show they were over-represented by a factor of five.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IN 2010 Nixon’s successor admitted that while police recorded the ethnic background of criminals it was not “appropriate to be putting that sort of information out” because “sometimes they cause offence”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LAST year the <span class="companylink">Salvation Army</span> accused Victoria’s police of covering up a violent New Year’s Eve brawl between more than 200 African youths in Melbourne’s CBD. Police did not issue a media release on the brawl and no media outlet reported it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IN NSW, police are more likely to describe the ethnicity of criminals, but the media Left still tend to omit it. For instance, police asked for help to find three men of “Mediterranean/Middle Eastern appearance” who allegedly attacked two 16-year-old girls, but the Sydney Morning Herald changed their descriptor to merely “dark complexion”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IN 2014 the Herald passed on police appeals to find six men who allegedly raped a 14-year-old girl, but omitted the men’s most identifiable feature. The reporter later tweeted that while she’d written the men were of African appearance, “it was taken out in the subbing process”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LAST October, The Age reported Victoria had “the worst month for gun violence this year, with 10 incidents” in a report that omitted police claims that the shootings were linked to Lebanese families.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IN 2013, federal Labor frontbencher Mark Dreyfus falsely claimed the “multicultural” community of Dandenong was “harmonious”, even though police warned it actually suffered from a high crime rate and African gangs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">True, there is a moral case for helping refugees. True, there is a moral case for not encouraging racists. But what is the moral case for misleading the public about public policies that put them at extra risk?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What else aren’t we being told?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This refusal to report can foster ignorance even in those paid to notice. Last year, senior ABC presenter Fran Kelly claimed she knew of no “links of people who have come in as refugees and then committed terrorist offences”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In fact, the last three terror attacks here — the stabbing of two police in Melbourne, the killing of two people in the Martin Place siege and the murder of a police accountant — were all by refugees, an important commonality rarely reported.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The misinformation continues. On Tuesday the ABC’s 7.30 reported claims that a five-year-old boy on Nauru had been raped, and there was “a report of a sexual assault every 13 days” in our detention centres, most involving children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The ABC report was designed to melt our hearts and open our gates, but nowhere did the ABC disclose whether the paedophiles who’d allegedly attacked these children were themselves <b>boat</b> people.Is that because Australians might not open the gates but lock them?</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1097 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FORMER defence procurement chief Warren King says Australia’s new Offshore Patrol Vessels should not be built in South Australia – which industry figures say would put the state’s entire shipbuilding industry at risk.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It comes as the Federal Government appears to be backing away from former prime minister Tony Abbott’s strong indication in August last year that the OPV build would start in Adelaide and lead into the Future Frigate program by 2020.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yesterday, Mr King told a Senate inquiry into shipbuilding that he would prefer to see the OPVs built elsewhere.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CONTINUED PAGE 4 Fears shipbuild pledge is far from a shore thing FROM PAGE 1 But Defence SA, industry insiders, and international experts warn the OPV build is a crucial precursor to building the $39 billion Future Frigates in Adelaide, and that the frigates in turn are a crucial step to being able to build the $50 billion Future Submarines.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That continuity is the only way to maintain the workforce and expertise, they say.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former prime minister Tony Abbott announced in Adelaide last August that $89 billion would be spent building ships for the Australian Navy in coming years, promising it would save South Australian jobs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the time, he said: “The Corvette (OPV) build is likely to start in Adelaide. It will stay in Adelaide until the frigate build starts in 2020.” The cost of the OPVs is rolled into the $39 billion cost of the Future Frigates program. But the Government has now backed away from its position that the fleet of OPV would likely be built in Adelaide. Western Australia is actively campaigning to build the OPVs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Defence has now said that no decision has been made on where they will be built, and yesterday Mr King shocked local observers by saying they should not be built in Adelaide.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Defence SA chief Andy Keough warned that if the OPVs are built in WA, the frigates will have a “cold start” because the ASC workforce will have dwindled to almost nothing by then.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said the Government-commissioned RAND report into the future of Australian shipbuilding showed the need to build both fleets in the same place.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Ultimately the issues were considered by the RAND report and in their deliberations and extensive study they looked at a number of these factors including where the OPVs should be constructed,” he said. “In their opinion one of the best options to mitigate the risk to Future Frigates was to construct the OPVs in the same location, reducing the risk of significant blowouts.” Defence Teaming Centre chief Chris Burns pointed out that the RAND report (which the Government has said it will follow closely) also showed you could effectively get the first four OPVs “free” because of the savings from ending the “stop-start” nature of shipbuilding.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Building the OPVs where we built the Air Warfare Destroyers we’ll bridge the Valley of Death because we’ll pick up the workforce from the AWDs and maintain those skill sets to transition across into building the frigates,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WA should focus on sustaining the ships once they were built, state Defence Industries Minister Martin Hamilton-Smith said. “Adelaide is where they should be built. Perth and Sydney is where they should be sustained,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A Defence Department response to a request from Labor Senator Stephen Conroy to confirm where the build would be only said “Australia”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Defence is unable to provide any further details,” the written response said. As the mining boom wanes, though, WA is agitating for the work – WA shipbuilder Austal has built the navy’s patrol boats in the past and the WA industry and Government have reportedly formed a “war council” to fight for the contract.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr King said yesterday there could be a “conflict with resources” if SA built both the OPVs and the Future Frigates.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I think there is a risk at least that we want to be aware of that the OPV could be a negative on the Future Frigates rather than a positive.” Defence Minister Marise Payne’s spokesman yesterday pointed to the August announcement that the Future Frigates would be brought forward by three years to save more than 500 jobs, and that they would be built in SA, and that the OPVs would be brought forward by two years to save 400 jobs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He did not detail where those jobs or that build would be.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PAGE 22: EDITORIAL</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WHAT LIES AHEAD OFFSHORE PATROL VESSELS The OPVs will replace the existing Armidale Class Patrol <b>Boat</b> fleet. Up to 20 of these smaller boats are used to patrol the waters around Australia and intercept other vessels – such as <b>asylum</b> seeker boats – at sea. Work is set to start in 2018. The cost is unclear as it is included in the $39 billion estimate for the Future Frigates.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FUTURE FRIGATES The Future Frigates will replace the Anzac Class fleet. They will be larger warships with anti-submarine capability. They will go to war, protect Australia’s borders, and be involved in fighting terror and pirates. Work is set to start in 2020. The Government has said they will cost $39 billion, including the OPVs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FUTURE SUBMARINES The Future Submarines will replace the Collins Class fleet. These submarines will have hi-tech stealth capabilities, which will be used to gather information. They will play an important role protecting our trade routes particularly as tensions rise in the South China Sea. The Government has said they will cost $50 billion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THEN The Corvette build is likely to start in Adelaide. It will stay in Adelaide until the frigate build starts in 2020 and then it’s quite possible that the Corvette build could shift.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">– Prime Minister Tony Abbott, August 21, 2015 These vessels will be the first in a continuous local shipbuilding program with construction of the Future Frigate being centred in Adelaide.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">– Defence Minister Marise Payne, December 17, 2015</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">NOW The Government has announced that the Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPV) will be built in Australia; and until the study (of alternative <b>boat</b> models) has been considered, Defence is unable to provide any further details.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">– Defence Department, January 29, 2016 There is a risk at least that we want to be aware of that the OPV could be a negative on the Future Frigates rather than a positive … there are a number of good shipbuilders around the country who would be capable of taking on OPVs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">– Former Defence Materiel Organisation chief Warren King,February 3, 2016</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Court decision will save lives LIVES will be saved as the result of yesterday’s decision by the High Court to dismiss a challenge to Australia’s offshore <b>asylum</b> seeker detention centres policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In finding the Australian Government has a legal right to operate the centres on Nauru and Manus Island, the court has prevented what could have been a return to the failed policies of Labor governments.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under Labor, 51,000 <b>asylum</b> seekers arrived by sea, including 8400 children. Not only was the policy a failure as thousands of <b>asylum</b> seekers, including women and children, were kept in detention in Australia, at least 1200 lives were lost at sea in rickety boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The people smugglers’ business collapsed when the Abbott government brought in its Sovereign Borders policy. The boats stopped coming and the Labor Party under Opposition Leader Bill Shorten came to accept that stopping the boats saved lives and Labor would follow a similar policy in government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Legal activists have since challenged the policy of sending <b>asylum</b> seekers to offshore detention centres and yesterday’s decision by the High Court centred on a Bangladeshi woman who was sent to Nauru, but suffered pregnancy issues for which she was treated in Australia, where her baby was born.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While there may be other cases brought before the courts, the decision makes it unlikely they will succeed. This is an emotionally charged issue but it cannot be denied that no lives have been lost by drowning since the boats stopped coming.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia is a compassionate country that respects its obligations under the UN Convention on Refugees and the success of its policy in turning back the people smugglers’ boats must be measured against the appalling loss as <b>asylum</b> seekers try to reach European countries by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While to some the Australian Government’s policy seems harsh, it has saved hundreds of lives based on the drownings when boats arrived on a daily basis. Many also sank on the way.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A majority of the High Court found the current government arrangements were valid under the Constitution, with Justice Michelle Gordon, its most recent appointment, the sole dissenting voice.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A group of 267 <b>asylum</b> seekers, including 54 children and 37 babies, currently in Australia may be sent back to Nauru following the High Court ruling.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of the children facing return to Nauru is a five-year-old boy alleged to have been raped at the detention centre; however, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says he will take any concerns from doctors about the boy’s welfare into consideration.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The most vocal of opponents to offshore detention are the Greens, but they have no policy. It is one thing for Greens politicians to wring their hands, but another to offer no solution to a complex humanitarian problem.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia has warned <b>asylum</b> seekers that if they try to get to Australia on a people smuggler’s <b>boat</b>, they will not be allowed to settle here under any circumstances.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The policy is the right one. It works. It has saved countless lives and will continue to do so.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hunt down hoaxers CALLS warning of bombings and shootings at Victorian schools are no joke. They represent a criminal conspiracy and must be treated as such.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The phone messages, which have caused thousands of terrified students to be evacuated from at least 20 schools across the state, appear to be linked to similar warnings overseas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A number of calls are believed to have originated from the Nossal High School at <span class="companylink">Monash University</span>’s Berwick campus.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, it may be that the school’s telecommunications system has been hacked and the school is being used to divert police from the where the calls are really coming from.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The hoax calls have caused chaos at schools in Britain, France, Japan and the United States as well as in Australia. Schools in New South Wales have been evacuated and at least 10 schools in Queensland have received the warnings.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some schools do not have the technology to send out a mass warning to parents. This calls for checks on all school communication systems and upgrades where necessary.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Parents who were aware of what was happening were forced to wait for up to two hours outside schools while police looked for explosive devices.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While police believe they are dealing with a hoaxer rather than a terrorist-inspired plot to spread fear within the community, the result has been the same.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mothers were in tears outside Black Rock Primary School, unable to comfort children huddled under their desks in classrooms.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the very least this is delinquent and vicious behaviour towards innocent families and children who have been concerned they are being targeted by terrorists.The hoaxers should feel the full force of the law.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>ASYLUM</b> SEEKER RULING Court rubber stamps <b>boat</b> policy</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A LARGE group of <b>asylum</b> seekers, including 36 infants, will be returned to Nauru after the High Court yesterday quashed a challenge to the validity of Australia’s offshore processing laws. The 267 illegal arrivals will be sent back over the coming weeks.FULL REPORT P2</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Tom Allard   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>466 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A004</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mum's plea: 'Please keep our innocents'</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Tom Allard</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Clockwise from above: Natalie Mazouin and son Charlie Johnson, 3, rally for <b>asylum</b> seekers on Wednesday; a supplied photo of baby Samuel; and Peter Dutton with Malcolm Turnbull. Photos: ALEX ELLINGHAUSEN</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An <b>asylum</b> seeker slated to be deported from Australia after the High Court ruled in favour of offshore detention has begged the Australian government to let her son stay behind, saying she believes he is Australian. Naomi*, an Iranian Christian who was intercepted in a <b>boat</b> on the way to Australia almost three years ago, said <b>asylum</b> seekers in detention in Australia were despairing after the High Court ruling. "Please keep our innocents," she said through an interpreter. "It is true we came by <b>boat</b>. We might have come and broken the law [even] if we didn't know the law had changed. "But that should have no bearing on our kids. Our kids are innocent." Naomi is the mother of Samuel, the baby who featured on the front pages of <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> newspapers this week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Samuel - eight months old - is one of 37 infants born in Australia to <b>asylum</b> seeker parents who face deportation. Another 50 or so older children and 160 adults face the same fate after being brought back to Australia from offshore detention for medical reasons. "Whatever the government do or say, I believe they are Australian," Naomi said. An inmate of Darwin's Wickham Point detention centre, Naomi described how the children had already been damaged by their time in detention, and how it would only get worse on Nauru. She said the babies and toddlers had trouble sleeping and were absorbing the "negative energy" of their distressed and depressed parents. The five-year-old children were becoming "aggressive". The older kids "constantly ask 'What is my fault, what is my guilt' "?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Perhaps worst of all is the uncertainty and wait for many years for resettlement in a country other than Nauru or Australia. "Over the last 32 months, we have seen damage in a way that I can't even describe," she said. "It's just hopelessness ... It feels like we are dying, it's waiting for dying. We get very, very tired to wait for another country. "It feels like a nightmare for us." As of Wednesday afternoon, Naomi said <b>asylum</b> seekers at Wickham Point had not been informed when they will be deported. "We have had so many bad news ... The mothers, they were all crying and upset when they heard the news [from the High Court]," she said. "Nobody has informed us about anything. We are basically worried about officers just very savagely entering our rooms and transferring us to Nauru." *Name has been changed</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Big business wants to double Syrian refugees to 25,000</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Patrick Durkin   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>590 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tony Shepherd and a cohort of leading business figures have called on the Turnbull government to more than double the intake of 12,000 Syrian refugees, claiming an intake of 25,000 represents our "fair share" as the humanitarian crisis unfolds.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shepherd, who was motivated to speak out after a confronting trip to the <b>refugee</b> camps in Lebanon and Turkey, said the refugees would make "great Australians".</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They would make good settlers and great Australians in my view," Mr Shepherd said about meeting the refugees in the camps first-hand.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Syrians have got a reputation for being good workers, intelligent, pretty well educated people, entrepreneurial - even in the big camps with 25,000 people some people had set up little stalls and were selling food and shoes and stuff like that - so I think they would fit in pretty well.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I understand the politics and the budgetary implications, but if we can do something, do it - and the economic burden will turn into an economic advantage," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shepherd, a hard-nosed businessman, admitted the experience had changed his perspective on the civil war, which the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> estimates has left a further 460,000 refugees still in need of resettlement over the next two years. "I hadn't understood the scope of the problem," Mr Shepherd said. "When you've got 1.3 million refugees in Lebanon in a country of 4 million which hasn't recovered from its own civil war, you begin to understand the scale of the problem."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shepherd travelled with the business delegates as part of the Friendly Nation Initiative, which included the CEO of the Australian Industry Group, Innes Willox, Corrs Chambers Westgarth managing partner John Denton, who also represents the <span class="companylink">Business Council of Australia</span>, and the CEO of First State Super, Michael Dwyer. He said that given the role business will play in the process he "wanted to know what sort of people these refugees are".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We were impressed by [their] attitude. These weren't people who would fly to Indonesia to get in a <b>boat</b> to come to Australia; they all wanted to go home. These people are fleeing the people who caused Paris."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of the last acts of Tony Abbott as prime minister was to announce that Australia would permanently resettle 12,000 refugees from Syria - expected to cost approximately $700 million over four years - and spend $44 million supplying 240,000 refugees with cash, food, water and blankets in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan. But Mr Shepherd, who chaired the Abbott government's audit commission review into budget savings, is urging Mr Turnbull to do more and wants the government to pressure the developed world to increase their <b>refugee</b> intake to 300,000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"There's a conference coming up in March in Europe on the issue; if the rest of the world goes along with it we should say we are prepared to increase our intake over two years but also press the rest of the world to increase funding to the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> for emergency relief and get the developed world to invest in infrastructure in Turkey and Lebanon to cope with the crisis," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He is also urging the business community to support the refugees and get behind companies including <span class="companylink">Kmart</span>, Woolworths and Harvey Norman that have already pledged their support.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Let's get business directly engaged ... actually commit to providing jobs at whatever level and actually short-circuit the system a bit."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Attitudes hardening towards <b>refugee</b> crisis</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PETER HARTCHER   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>579 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Newcastle Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NEHR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Angela Merkel threw open Germany-?s doors to refugees half a year ago in a moment of national exuberance. Germans went to the railway stations to welcome exhausted Syrians with flowers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">-?If Europe fails on the question of refugees,-? said the chancellor, -?then it won-?t be the Europe we wished for.-? The polls showed public opinion on her side. More than a million refugees entered Germany last year.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But New Year-?s Eve in the German city of Cologne marked a turning point in the debate. The crowd of about 1000 men who made co-ordinated sexual assaults on women at Cologne railway station generated 560 formal complaints to the police that night.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Most of the assailants, according to a senior German official Ralph Jaeger, were Arab or North African. One reportedly told the German police: -?You can't touch me. I'm Syrian: Merkel wants me here.-?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">News emerged of similar, co-ordinated attacks on the same night in Austria, Switzerland, Finland and Sweden.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Coming after the Paris terrorist attacks last November conducted mostly by immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa, these attacks seemed to vindicate the anti-immigration parties and the far-right demagogues.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A backlash is under way. The polls have reversed. Most Germans now oppose Merkel-?s stance, and over 60 per cent say the country has too many refugees already.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Across the continent, attitudes have hardened, fences have been built, laws toughened. Germany, Austria, France, Sweden and Denmark have all suspended the Schengen zone system of free movement across borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Central Europe's response has been harsh - the "Visegrad group" of Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic has been unified in opposing any move to liberalise immigration laws. Xenophobic and far-right parties across Europe are on the rise.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it-?s also much wider than a European phenomenon. There is no precedent since World War II for the number of displaced people in distress and seeking haven.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">-?We are witnessing a paradigm change, an unchecked slide into an era in which the scale of global forced displacement as well as the response required is now clearly dwarfing anything seen before," the <span class="companylink">UN High Commissioner for Refugees</span>, Ant-nio Guterres, said last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His commission said that the number of people forcibly displaced at the end of 2014 was 59.5 million, an increase of over 8 million in one year. It compares to 37.5 million a decade earlier.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Syria is the biggest new source of refugees, but in the last five years 15 wars have started or resumed, eight in Africa, three in the Middle East, plus the Ukraine crisis in Europe and three in Asia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the face of this rising tide of distressed and displaced people, attitudes everywhere are hardening. It-?s no coincidence that Donald Trump-?s very first policy announcement in declaring his bid for the presidency was his proposal to wall off Mexico.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia, by hardening its borders to refugees two years ago, has been largely immune to the latest global upsurge in <b>asylum</b> seekers. The Coalition-?s <b>boat</b> turnback policy was harsh, ugly and effective, so effective that Labor has now adopted it too. Because of this, Australia is now in a position to make measured responses from a position of strength, by gradually increasing its <b>refugee</b> intake and helping alleviate the greatest human suffering since the Second World War.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gfr : Germany | syria : Syria | austr : Australia | nswals : New South Wales | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dach : DACH Countries | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | eecz : European Union Countries | eurz : Europe | meastz : Middle East | medz : Mediterranean | wasiaz : Western Asia | weurz : Western Europe</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document NEHR000020160203ec220000m</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020160201ec220002t" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Coalition has growing appetite for increasing GST</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAVID CROWE, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT; Additional reporting: Sid Maher   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>776 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">EXCLUSIVE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The federal government is increasingly confident of delivering a boost to economic growth by cutting income taxes for millions of workers, as part of a reform plan that relies on a bigger GST to pay for the change.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Scott Morrison is cooling talk of a tax break for big companies as he aims instead to use personal tax cuts to generate the economic dividend that will be essential to the final policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Malcolm Turnbull canvassed the GST increase with cabinet ministers yesterday morning amid optimism among key colleagues that there is a solid base of support for the change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Reform advocates are emboldened by a Newspoll published in The Australian yesterday showing 37 per cent of voters support an increase in the GST if it comes with tax cuts for workers and compensation for the vulnerable. While 54 per cent oppose a bigger GST, the government is taking heart from its continued lead over Labor in the latest poll, despite Bill Shorten having spent weeks campaigning against a higher consumption tax.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Liberal MPs in marginal electorates fear the looming reform plan, however, and worry that the Prime Minister and the Treasurer are pressing ahead with the GST increase despite the danger of a backlash at the election due this year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No decision has been made on whether to increase the GST but those involved in the government’s deliberations believe one option is to announce a comprehensive package in April, in time to put the policies into the federal budget on May 10.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The commonwealth could collect an additional $50 billion a year by widening the GST base to fresh food, education and health while increasing the rate from 10 per cent to 15 per cent, but ministers are more inclined to proceed with a simple rate increase.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Although the <span class="companylink">Financial Services Council</span> released detailed modelling last month forecasting a 1.9 per cent annual boost to the economy if a bigger GST was used to pay for company tax cuts as well as personal tax cuts, the relief for big companies is seen as difficult to sell to voters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Morrison declared yesterday that he could make the case for difficult tax changes, just as he did in opposition when he argued for the use of <b>boat</b> turnbacks to discourage <b>asylum</b>-seekers arriving by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I’ve got to say I’m no stranger to causes that don’t enjoy popular support,” the Treasurer said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I remember for five years I campaigned heavily on what were very unpopular measures, whether it was on turnbacks or other things, and the surveys were against it. But I believed it was right for the country.” The Scanlon Foundation survey of voter attitudes showed only 23 per cent of Australians supported <b>boat</b> turnbacks in 2011, far lower than the support for a GST in yesterday’s Newspoll. Support for <b>boat</b> turnbacks has since climbed to 33 per cent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Mr Shorten has used regular appearances in supermarkets in recent weeks to warn voters against a bigger GST, the Coalition retains a 53 per cent to 47 per cent lead over Labor in the two-party-preferred vote — unchanged from eight weeks ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We will stand up for millions of Australians and oppose a 15 per cent GST,” Mr Shorten said yesterday. “Who on earth thinks it’s a good idea to slug the pensioners, to slug older Australians, to slug people going to work every day, with a 15 per cent price rise? We’re on the right side of history because we understand how real people are battling to make ends meet.” Labor is split on the issue, however, as South Australian Labor Premier Jay Weatherill argues for GST reform to fund health and education. “We’re not collecting enough money in this nation to fund the basic needs of our citizens,” he said yesterday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In another step towards change, Northern Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles yesterday wrote to all state and territory leaders inviting them to attend an in-depth meeting on tax reform in Darwin on March 4, with a view to breaking the deadlock over GST reform ahead of the next <span class="companylink">Council of Australian Governments</span> meeting expected to take place in early April.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Morrison is expected to meet state treasurers early in March to canvass potential changes before Mr Turnbull meets the premiers and chief ministers the next month.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government is stepping back from Joe Hockey’s original intention of releasing a “green paper” on the tax reform options.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MORE REPORTS P4 JUDITH SLOAN P12EDITORIAL P13</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Michael Gordon, Nick McKenzie 
 and Richard Baker   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>491 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A004</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Children face an uncertain future as deportation looms By Michael Gordon, Nick McKenzie and Richard Baker
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Samuel's parents have high hopes.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Samuel arrived into the world chubby; a miniature wrestler who, eight months on, has just produced his eighth tooth. Born at the Royal Darwin Hospital, his parents had him baptised as soon as they could and earmarked him for great things. The dream is that their boy will become an Australian doctor or lawyer, but Samuel is unlikely to</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">realise it. He is one of 37 babies the Turnbull government wants to put on a plane, as early as next week, and send to Nauru's offshore processing centre. Also facing the prospect of removal are about 160 adults, including Samuel's parents, and about another 50 older children. All were brought back to Australia from offshore centres in Nauru or Manus Island, mostly for medical treatment. The group is party to a High Court case where the Human Rights Law Centre</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">is challenging the government's policy of sending uninvited <b>boat</b> arrivals to life in limbo on two small islands run by foreign governments. The decision by the court's full bench will be handed down on Wednesday morning and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has signalled his intention to move quickly to send the <b>asylum</b> seekers to Nauru, saying this will reduce the number of children in detention on the mainland to just seven. "This is a sleight of hand," said the</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, Professor Gillian Triggs. She said the babies and children would be simply transferred from mainland detention to an environment certain to do even more damage. A team from the commission visited many of those who face removal to Nauru at the Wickham Point centre near Darwin before Christmas and Professor Triggs said a medical team reported they had never come across such traumatised children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"But they are partly traumatised because of the constant threat that they'll be going back to Nauru," she said. Mr Dutton's office said there would be no comment in the lead-up to the High Court decision. If the government loses the case, it's possible the people could be sent to Christmas Island where they would be kept in detention. So distressed are many of the parents at these events that they agreed to <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> publishing the pictures of their babies. Supporters of offshore processing say conditions for those whose claims are yet to be finalised have improved dramatically since the decision by the Nauru government to allow <b>asylum</b> seekers to freely come and go from the fence-ringed centre. But the <b>asylum</b> seekers who spoke to <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> from their present home, the Wickham Point centre near Darwin, say the island itself - a barren outcrop the size of Melbourne airport - is their jail.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nauru : Nauru | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | pacisz : Pacific Islands</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020160201ec220001l</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AFNR000020160201ec2200005" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>GST pitch just in time for election</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Phillip Coorey Chief political correspondent   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>694 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Turnbull government is leaning towards delaying the release of its tax package until the second half of this year in order to minimise the time for a scare campaign by the federal opposition and others opposed to the change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With the politics of an increased goods and services tax fraught, federal cabinet is now actively discussing pushing the release well beyond the May budget in a strategy mimicking that of John Howard in 1998.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then, Mr Howard and his treasurer, Peter Costello, released their tax reform package, which included a 10 per cent GST, in August 1998 and called an election three weeks later for October 3, which the government won only narrowly.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cabinet sources have confirmed the Turnbull government, which is still a long way off finalising its tax package, is now disposed towards a similar strategy. This follows a change in rhetoric in recent days from Malcolm Turnbull and his senior ministers who will now only commit to launching the tax policy before the election, not at or before the May 10 budget.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the moment, the government is inclined towards a 15 per cent GST applied to the existing base with the extra revenue to be spent on tax cuts and compensation. It contends that a more efficient tax system will generate growth and revenue. Sources said modelling by the government over the summer shows a lag before any growth dividend and, hence, the tax package will place a heavy emphasis on closing tax loopholes used by wealthy individuals and companies, to make the politics of selling a higher GST easier.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A Newspoll published on Monday showed 37 per cent of voters backed GST rate increase from 10 per cent to 15 per cent with compensation while 54 per cent were opposed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor leader Bill Shorten said the government should give up its quest but Treasurer Scott Morrison was buoyed. He harked back to his days as immigration minister, saying the polls back then were less enthusiastic about him being able to stop <b>asylum</b>-seekers arriving by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Turnbacks were far less popular than that. I'm no stranger to causes that don't enjoy popular support."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In November last year, an Ipsos/Fairfax poll found support for a GST increase in isolation was 28 per cent. However, when voters were asked whether they supported an increased GST if it was accompanied with tax cuts and other forms of compensation for household on incomes of less than $100,000, support almost doubled to 52 per cent .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Morrison and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann were unenthusiastic on Monday towards a new proposal by NSW Premier Mike Baird in which the GST would be boosted to 15 per cent but, in the short term, just a fraction of the proceeds spent on health and education.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Morrison said the federal government was loath to embrace any idea that would result in increased spending. "You must be careful that you don't go into this tax and spend cycle," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Baird's proposal would raise about $32.5 billion a year and more</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the three years from 2017-18 to 2019-20, the federal government would keep all of the revenue except for $7 billion, which would be given to the states to make up for funding cuts to schools and hospitals in the 2014 federal budget.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The federal government would be able to use its revenue windfall on large cuts to corporate and personal income tax and compensate welfare recipients and low-income earners.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then, in 2020, the states and the federal government could renegotiate the redistribution of the revenue to fund health and education over the long term, taking into account how much was being generated by the GST, efficiencies in health costs that the states had been able to make and the extra revenue being driven by growth generated by the tax cuts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Baird's proposal varies from his previous idea to use all proceeds from a 15 per cent GST, other than that spent on compensation, to pay for health and hospitals.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>e211 : Government Taxation/Revenue | gpol : Domestic Politics | npag : Page-One Stories | e21 : Government Finance | ecat : Economic News | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AFNR000020160201ec2200005</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020160131ec210008d" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Children facing a return to island</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>EXCLUSIVE: PAIGE TAYLOR   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>523 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1 February 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Preparations are almost complete for the return of children to ­detention on Christmas Island ahead of a High Court ruling that human rights lawyers say could have significant ramifications for the future of Australia’s offshore processing regime.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The High Court will on Wednesday deliver its judgment in the case of a Bangladeshi woman who was detained on Nauru but brought to Australia for medical treatment during the last stages of her pregnancy. Hers is the lead case linked to a series of challenges on behalf of 260 people who sought <b>asylum</b> in Australia by <b>boat</b>, were subsequently ­detained on Nauru but are now living on the Australian mainland after being brought here for ­urgent medical treatment or for mental health reasons.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are 38 babies among them — some born in Australia — and the former Nauru detainees are currently in Brisbane, Melbourne and Darwin.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The case began as a challenge to the lawfulness of the Australian government spending money on offshore detention in a foreign country. After the Abbott government passed legislation that retrospectively gave it that authority, the case challenged whether Australia had the constitutional power to detain people on foreign soil. But two days ­before that hearing it was ­announced that the centre on Nauru was now open and ­<b>asylum</b>-seekers who were sent there were free to move around the ­Pacific Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are now fears among <b>refugee</b> advocates that if Australia wins the case, it will send the 260 former Nauru detainees from mainland Australia to the Australian territory of Christmas Island where they first landed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Others have predicted that, depending on the outcome, Australia may be compelled to take families from Nauru to Christmas Island while it adjusts its offshore processing policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The camp on Christmas Island that once held families has been vacant since December 2014. In recent months contractors have been employed by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection to carry out repairs, ­install new airconditioners and replace mattresses.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The adults and children affected by the High Court ruling have all suffered harm in detention, ­according to the Human Rights Law Centre, which ran the case, heard by the full bench of the High Court on October 7 and 8.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The HRLC director of legal advocacy, Daniel Webb, said his client, her husband and their one-year-old baby were terrified of being sent back to Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has the authority to send any of the 26 to Nauru if he gives 72 hours’ notice. It was unclear whether any notice was required to send the families to Christmas Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">Shine Lawyers</span> special counsel George Newhouse, a <b>refugee</b> ­advocate who has taken many cases to the High Court, said: “This is a very important case because it challenges the validity of the offshore processing regime. If the plaintiff is successful then I would expect the government will need to reassess its entire offshore processing policy.”In December, Mr Dutton told Sky News he believed Australia was on “strong ground” in the High Court case but contingencies were being made just in case.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | nauru : Nauru | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | pacisz : Pacific Islands</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020160131ec210008d</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020160129ec1u0004y" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Commentary</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Migrant crisis mugs Sweden</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>558 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>30 January 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">European nations are facing hard lessons over soft borders</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sweden’s longstanding reputation as the country most admired by “progressives” across the world — including those in Australia — for its liberal, open-door policy of welcoming refugees has been dealt a severe blow with the announcement it is to deport 80,000 migrants, nearly half of all those who have arrived in the past year. As well, the Stockholm government — like so many across Europe, at its wits’ end over how to handle the tidal wave of <b>asylum</b>-seekers — has overturned its system of open borders and imposed strict frontier controls.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The so-called “citadel of political correctness” or “generous humanitarian superpower”, as Sweden likes to call itself, has thus been brought down to earth by inescapable reality. Nothing, from an Australian perspective, better highlights the foresight of the offshore processing and <b>asylum boat</b> tow-back policies implemented against vitriolic criticism by the Abbott government when it came to power. These developments also highlight the prescience of Tony Abbott when he delivered his widely criticised Margaret Thatcher Lecture in London last October, warning against open borders and suggesting Europe faced potential catastrophe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sweden’s ruling centre-left coalition would clearly rather not be resorting to harsh measures — no government would. But it doesn’t have a viable alternative. It has a small population of only 9.5 million and migrants have been pouring in at the rate of 1500 a day, straining resources to the limit. The 190,000 who have arrived are second only to Germany’s one million. The situation has been exacerbated by European Commission vice-president Frans Timmermans’s disclosure that 60 per cent of all <b>asylum</b>-seekers across Europe are being found to be “not fleeing war or persecution” but economic migrants who “you can assume have no reason to apply for <b>refugee</b> status”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The effect on Sweden’s place at the pinnacle of Europe’s moral high ground has been profound. Cases of violent crime, especially rape, have soared. Outrages like last week’s stabbing attack by a 15-year-old <b>asylum</b> seeker that killed a young Swedish woman working night shift at a migrant hostel have fuelled a surge in support for anti-immigrant groups, particularly the Sweden Democrats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sweden is not alone in having to reassess its previously liberal stance. Denmark’s decision to confiscate migrant assets, though seemingly harsh, is hardly surprising when the majority of new arrivals are turning out to be economic migrants. And the prospect of any meaningful reduction in the number of arrivals looks grim; Europe’s $3.5 billion deal with Turkey to stop the flow at source isn’t working. Around 50,000 more migrants have arrived in Greece this month alone and the <span class="companylink">EU</span> is now seriously considering ways of fencing off the country so new arrivals can go no further. Staggering projections are that another 2.6 million people are heading for Europe.In finally facing up to reality, albeit reluctantly, the Stockholm government deserves to be commended. For bleeding hearts like our own Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young there are hard lessons in Stockholm’s reluctant rethink. This is a diabolical policy area where soft and apparently compassionate attitudes can lead to great trauma and tragedy. Europe is still struggling to come to terms with it.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>swed : Sweden | austr : Australia | stock : Stockholm | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | eecz : European Union Countries | eurz : Europe | nordz : Nordic Countries | scandz : Scandinavia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020160129ec1u0004y</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SMHH000020160129ec1u0005t" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News Review</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Asylum</b>-seeker problem needs regional solution</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Michael Gordon   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1658 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>30 January 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>30</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is up to countries in the region to work together to deal humanely with refugees. Michael Gordon reports.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Call it the exception that proves the rule. When it comes to the big policy challenges facing the nation, from tax reform to combating terrorism, Malcolm Turnbull's mantra is that everything, absolutely everything, is on the table.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But when the task is to find solutions for those in limbo on Manus Island and Nauru, or to afford <b>asylum</b> seekers in mainland detention centres or the Australian community on bridging visas a measure of certainty, there are some ideas that are simply not up for discussion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Here, the nation's leaders are paralysed by a kind of consensus on suffering, whereby any step towards affording refugees permanent protection in Australia is perceived as giving a green light to the people smugglers to resume their trade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This much was clear during one of the new Prime Minister's first interviews, when Turnbull volunteered that he shared the concerns of Australians about the plight of those in Australia's detention centres and hinted things might change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Let me be absolutely clear, there will be no resettlement of the people on Manus and Nauru in Australia," Turnbull said in a clarifying statement within a few hours, after blunt warnings from ministerial colleagues and bureaucrats. "I know it sounds tough, but we cannot take a backward step on this issue ... the people smugglers have to understand ... we will not tolerate people-smuggling."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The contradiction in the Prime Minister's response - on the one hand acknowledging the concern and saying policies are always under review and, on the other, refusing to bend - amounts to a challenge to those who crave a better way: to craft a policy that ends the nightmare of those on Manus and Nauru but minimises the risk of desperate people boarding leaky boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So far, it is being taken up on three levels, though the prospect of relief any time soon is as remote as the two distant islands.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first, by academic Robert Manne, is deliberately narrow. It would see the Nauru and Manus caseloads gradually and quietly settled in Australia, roughly according to how desperate their situations have become; with the other blunt edges of Australia's policy, like turnbacks to Indonesia, remaining.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Essentially, the PM has two choices," Manne explains. "One is to accept that these 1500 people will be really destroyed in body and spirit. The other is to take what I think is an extremely small risk: that by gradually bringing them into Australia, boats will start to return."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The second is a small group of Coalition MPs, quietly urging Turnbull to act and focusing their attention the potential to collaborate more closely with Indonesia, with turnbacks on the table.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The third response is the most ambitious and the most important in the long-term, with the aim of developing a regional approach to mass people movements that would render unnecessary dangerous boats trips and the cruel policies Australia has developed to deter them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It has brought more than 30 experts, advocates, academics and officials from Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Myanmar together in Bangkok this weekend for the second of six planned meetings over three years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Their recommendations will be considered by officials meeting in Bangkok in the coming days and then by ministers in a matter of weeks. The hope is that, within five or 10 years, the region will have a framework for dealing co-operatively and humanely with the challenge of refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last year's <b>refugee</b> crisis in the Bay of Bengal demonstrated the inadequacy of the existing framework. Triggered by a crackdown by the Thai government on people-smuggling after the discovery of a mass grave at a trafficker's camp, the crisis saw thousands of <b>asylum</b> seekers abandoned in boats in the Andaman Sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When the boats sought refuge in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, they were initially turned away, prompting a humanitarian crisis and international condemnation that forced the three countries to think again and offer temporary haven.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Abbott was asked whether Australia would contribute to a solution by agreeing to resettle some of those found to be refugees, he delivered his signature three-word slogan: "Nope, nope, nope."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Aimed at a domestic audience, the statement did incalculable damage to Australia's standing in the region, undermining the contribution this country has made in providing humanitarian assistance over decades and the capacity to be taken seriously in leading a regional response.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Our problem is that we're fairweather friends," says John Menadue, formerly one of Australia's most senior bureaucrats and one of the participants in this weekend's Track II Dialogue on Forced Migration. "We run to the region when we've got a problem, then we walk away and lose interest."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While this is true, last year's episode invites other conclusions that are just as troubling as the Abbott response: that countries tend to be reactive; and most respond through the prism of narrow national interest and sovereignty, when a broader outlook would result in better outcomes for all.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There has been a failure to articulate solutions informed by the facts in all of the affected countries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"This is not like tax, where it's a crowded field of people saying they have the policy answer," says Travers McLeod, the Melbourne-based chief executive of the Centre for Policy Development, one of the three conveners of the dialogue. "Part of the problem in this space has been that it's been relatively empty in terms of policy and very crowded in terms of advocacy."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">McLeod sees the dialogue as the most concerted attempt to date to deal with all of these problems. "Until we put this policy laboratory together, there was no hope for us in carving out what that regional solution looks like."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Paris Aristotle, a member of Julia Gillard's expert panel on <b>asylum</b> issues that proposed a regional framework in August 2012, agrees, lamenting that no real progress has been made in developing one since.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The panel recommended the reopening of offshore processing centres on Nauru and Manus as a short-term "circuit-breaker" to deter <b>boat</b> arrivals, but calls to dramatically increase Australia's humanitarian intake, take more refugees from the region and build the capacity of countries like Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand to improve conditions for <b>asylum</b> seekers were overlooked.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Over the last three and a half years, the greatest failing has been that almost no progress has been made on a coherent regional framework that would provide architecture to manage this issue co-operatively," says Aristotle, chief executive of the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture and a participant in the dialogue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Australian policy has stopped boats and, most importantly, prevented deaths at sea, and that's a good thing - except for the fact that it is not sustainable over the long term and it's causing terrible harm to people, which has to stop."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now the pressure is mounting on all parties to embrace a more collaborative approach that anticipates challenges and provides answers. So what might it look like?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The starting principle is that no country in the region can unilaterally and satisfactorily address the escalating challenges posed by forced migration. With roughly one resettlement place on offer for every 10 people who need to be resettled, the framework would focus on providing longer-term sustainable care to displaced people in transit countries, promoting new migration pathways and more opportunities for migrant workers and assisting local integration.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For Australia, it would mean further expanding the <b>refugee</b> program and deploying some of the billions now spent on imprisoning <b>asylum</b> seekers offshore on building the capacity of regional countries to provide basic services and work rights to displaced people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Inevitably, it would also mean striking a deal whereby Indonesia co-operates with turnbacks to prevent a revival of the people-smuggling trade, but one where <b>asylum</b> seekers are no longer turned back to poverty, deprivation and indefinite detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And it would mean that those on Nauru and Manus are offered permanent protection here, in New Zealand and potentially elsewhere.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Most of all, it would also mean being brave enough to have a discussion where everything is on the table, and to accept that it is possible to construct a policy that protects Australia's border without knowingly, damaging the lives of a relatively small group of vulnerable people who came to this country seeking protection.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Michael Gordon was invited to participate in the Track II Dialogue on Forced Migration in the Asia-Pacific by the Centre for Policy Development.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pressure points</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Persecution of minorities such as Rohingya (in Myanmar) and Hazara (in Afghanistan and Pakistan); people trafficking (of Bangladeshis); war (Syria and Iraq) and climate change displacement is forcing people out of their homes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MYANMAR</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Around one million Rohingya living in the country's west are denied basic rights and subject to persecution by the largely Buddhist society.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BANGLADESH</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How to up to 500,000 Rohingya, only some of whom are considered refugees and receive protection and support.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MALAYSIA</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than 150,000 <b>asylum</b> seekers, refugees and stateless persons registered with <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>; vast majority are from Myanmar. Up to two million undocumented migrant workers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THAILAND</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A transit country for those fleeing Myanmar; home to more than 600,000 refugees, <b>asylum</b> seekers and stateless persons.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">INDONESIA</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Host to more than 13,000 people seeking protection, including Rohingyas whose boats were initially turned back in 2015.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AUSTRALIA</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Almost 1500 <b>asylum</b> seekers being held in the Manus Island detention centre and Nauru processing centre. Around 30,000 in Australia on bridging visas waiting <b>refugee</b> determination. One-off intake of 12,000 Syrians on top of annual humanitarian intake of 13,750, which will increase to 16,250 in 2017/18 and 18,750 in 2018/19.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Human rights losing to bad policies</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>621 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>29 January 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By what measures should we judge the strength of a nation? On the basis of the economy, perhaps? The ability to accumulate personal wealth, to participate fully in the workforce, the enhancement of opportunities? Or through sporting achievements? Is it measured by the liveability of its cities or the warmth of its people?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No, there is something far more vital. A nation should be judged, first and foremost, by its adherence to human rights and its respect for personal liberties, for that is what will provide its people with the best opportunities for advancement.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia generally has a strong record in that regard. Our institutions are designed to protect our civil and political rights, and this is generally a nation of good people, who respect the rule of law and participate vigorously but fairly in the democratic process.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We like to believe that we are a just people, open and honest, that we uphold the spirit of fairness and that we look out for each other. But some of the policies implemented by federal or state governments in recent years have undermined Australia's reputation as a progressive nation that upholds the highest standards of human rights.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the treatment of <b>asylum</b> seekers, on the many appalling aspects of social and economic disadvantage affecting Indigenous Australians, on mandatory sentencing and imprisonment of juveniles, on broad and overly restrictive laws that are designed to counter terrorist activities but have compromised personal liberties, on depriving dual nationals of their citizenship if they are suspected (not found guilty, mind you) of terrorism, Australia is going backwards.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Much of this is spelt out in <span class="companylink">Human Rights Watch</span>'s latest global report, which describes Australia's policies on <b>asylum</b> seekers as "abusive". Its checklist of what happened last year in the border control and immigration portfolio would be laughable - fit for a dysfunctional Lilliputian kingdom - if it were not, in fact, so terribly real.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Recall that the government paid the crew of a people-smuggling <b>boat</b> $US30,000 to turn the vessel back to Indonesia. Last week, an Indonesia court found that action - the payment by Australian officials - proved that the crew was profiting from people-smuggling.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There were multiple reports of sexual abuse and assaults of detainees at Australia's immigration centre on Nauru, but medical practitioners and aid workers were barred from speaking out. And then the government manipulated reports of such abuse by wrongly suggesting <span class="companylink">Save the Children</span> staff were "coaching" <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then there was the government's disgraceful, concerted attack on the independent Human Rights Commission president, Gillian Triggs, who released a report highlighting hundreds of reports of assaults on children in detention, including dozens of sexual assaults, self-harm incidents and psychological damage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are still 91 children in detention, including 68 on Nauru. Of the 1792 people in immigration detention centres at the end of December, more than half (56.4 per cent) have been held for over a year and almost one-in-four have been detained for more than two years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australians prefer to believe they look out for the most disadvantaged members of our community. But there is an increasing disconnection between the high standards the nation professes to pursue and the contemptuous policies implemented by governments that have the effect of eroding human rights or denying our obligations under international law.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australians cannot afford to lose sight of the values that make us great people. Reports, such as this one by <span class="companylink">Human Rights Watch</span>, provide a broader and much-needed perspective. They highlight how human rights too often are compromised by elected officials whose eyes are fixed on the short-term political cycle.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>ON THIS DAY JANUARY 28</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>279 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 January 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>34</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1788 French ships Astrolabe and Boussole, under Jean-Francois de La Perouse, enter Botany Bay, Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1848 The Rt Reverend Dr Charles Perry is installed as the first Anglican Bishop of Melbourne.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1986 Space shuttle Challenger explodes moments after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida, killing all seven crew members.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2015 Australia's High Court rules that the government acted legally in detaining 157 Tamil <b>asylum</b> seekers aboard a Customs <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Today's birthday</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Frank Darabont (1959-)</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hungarian-American filmmaker</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Filmmaker Frank Darabont has written and directed some of the most loved films of all time. He was born Darabont Ferenc in a French <b>refugee</b> camp after his parents had fled Hungary following the 1956 revolution. The family settled in Los Angeles and after graduating from <span class="companylink">Hollywood High School</span> in 1977, Darabont worked behind the scenes on films such as Hell Night (1981) and The Seduction (1982). He directed a short film in 1983 based on a Stephen King short story The Woman in the Room. Darabont wrote screenplays for A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), The Blob (1988) and The Fly II (1989) before writing and directing his first feature length film, Buried Alive (1990). Darabont once again adapted a Stephen King story to write and direct The Shawshank Redemption (1994). Featuring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, the film was a disappointment at the box office, but won huge acclaim from critics. It is now considered one of the greatest films ever made. Darabont returned to the director's chair for The Green Mile (1999), which was praised by critics and earned close to $A430 million.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Asylum</b> policy 'abusive'</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>David Wroe   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>384 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 January 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Human rights - Watch group blasts record</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A leading international human rights group has blasted Australia's <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy as "abusive" and says a serious rethink is needed to restore the country's standing globally.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">Human Rights Watch</span>, one of the world's most prominent rights campaign organisations, has said in its yearly report that Australia, while having a solid record on civil and political rights, was failing to respect international standards for <b>asylum</b> seekers and this was taking "a heavy human toll".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The report also blasts new counter-terrorism laws, which had bipartisan backing from the major parties, as "overly broad and vague" - though that broadside was also aimed at a range of other Western nations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a statement accompanying the report, the organisation's Asia director, Brad Adams, said that Australia had done "little to redeem its reputation" regarding <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy in 2015 despite international criticism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Australia needs to seriously rethink its abusive <b>refugee</b> policies and take steps to restore its international standing as a rights-respecting country."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The report highlights a number of developments it says merit criticism, including the Coalition government's "personal and unsubstantiated attacks" on Australian Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It also singles out continued <b>boat</b> turn-backs, the gagging of Immigration Department contractors, the payment of cash to people-smugglers, the failure to resettle <b>asylum</b> seekers on Papua New Guinea, and evidence of sexual assaults on Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Adams said Australia's new counter-terrorism laws raised human rights concerns, particularly with the lack of legal safeguards in new legislation that strips citizenship from dual national terrorists.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Measures such as stripping citizenship from dual nationals without basic legal safeguards are major steps backwards for Australia," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The wider report, scrutinising human rights practices in more than 90 countries, said the "politics of fear" led many countries to wind back civil and political rights.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Adams said Australia's own shortcomings undermined its own ability to call for stronger rights protections abroad including through its lobbying for a seat on the <span class="companylink">United Nations Human Rights Council</span> in 2018.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said Australia rarely tackled other countries on human rights abuses, particularly nations with which it cooperated on border protection or had a significant trade relationship.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>unhrc : United Nations Human Rights Council</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | ghum : Human Rights/Civil Liberties | gcat : Political/General News | gcom : Society/Community | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AGEE000020160127ec1s0003i</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020160127ec1s0001w" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Former child <b>refugee</b>'s journey to a new life</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Emma Macdonald   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1736 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 January 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A001</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former child <b>refugee</b>'s journey to a new life</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the age of 13, Canberra Vietnamese restaurant owner Sue Le fled her homeland with her family and spent 18 months in a <b>refugee</b> camp before arriving here in 1982. Photo: KARLEEN MINNEY By Emma Macdonald</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Continued Page 2</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As Canberra embraced generations of new Australians during citizenship ceremonies across the city on Tuesday, Sue Le paused for thought as she remembered her own journey to the country she now loves. At the age of 13, Ms Le fled her homeland of Vietnam on an 11-metre wooden <b>boat</b> with her parents and seven siblings. The family was pursued by pirates before being plucked out of the ocean by an American Oil tanker as a typhoon approached the rickety skiff. They then spent 18 months detained in a <b>refugee</b> camp in Malaysia, before finally taking their her first steps on Australian soil in February of 1982. Ms Le's father, Le Van Deo - who</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">was part of the wave of an estimated 110,000 of the original "<b>boat</b> people" who fled to Australia from communist Vietnam - chose the city of Canberra to start a new life with his large family because "he wanted all of us children to have a good education and we heard Canberra was an education city", according to Ms Le. So she and her brothers and sisters enrolled in Evatt Primary School and Melba High School -</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">depending on their age - and took English language classes at Telopea Park School's Introductory English Centre. Meanwhile, their parents ploughed their life savings of $2000 into a suburban restaurant, The Saigon Vietnamese Restaurant in Pearce, pledging to pay back their friend and owner the rest of the $50,000 sale price in earnings. What income and tips didn't go on the loan was sent back to support remaining family in Vietnam. Despite her dad having been a rural fisherman and her mother raising nine children - the eldest of whom remained in Vietnam - Ms Le said running a restaurant was an obvious choice for the couple as food was their obsession and their cooking was excellent. "We had such a big family to cook</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">for it wasn't that hard to cook for more," she said with a laugh. Her mother's spring roll recipes have been in circulation for the last 33 years. By the time Ms Le was 16, her dad had made her the manager of the restaurant. "We would get home from school in Belconnen and Dad or my older brothers would drive us across town to Woden Valley and we would fall asleep in the car, then Dad would gently wake us up, and say 'come on now, it is time for work'." "We never complained, we always got our homework done." To this day, Ms Le still spends six days a week, averaging 14 hours a day, pounding the restaurant floor, managing staff, putting in orders and greeting customers with her trademark "Hello darling!" as she</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ushers them to a seat in her latest restaurant, the Pho Phu Quoc in Dickson. She bought the restaurant almost three years ago with her sister Leanne and her business partner Tung Dang and earlier this year they moved from Cape to Badham Street to make way for the Cape Street redevelopment.The new restaurant seats up to 200 - doubling its previous capacity - but diners can still find it hard to get a table on a Saturday night. Ms Le is a somewhat reluctant success story. "I never really wanted to leave the suburbs for what I call the big city (Civic and Dickson) and I never wanted a big restaurant but I love my</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former child <b>refugee</b>'s journey to a fulfilling new life</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From Page 1</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A tear-out of the front page Canberra Times article from October 1988.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">customers and some have followed me all around Canberra." The Pho Phu Quoc does a third of its trade in the heart-warming comfort food of pho, or Vietnamese soup, packed with fresh herbs and rice noodles. Each week Ms Le orders 14 kilograms of basil, and hundreds of kilograms of rice noodles to ensure her 100litre stock pots are always at capacity. She hand rolls up to 1000 spring rolls a week. The most popular dishes (apart from pho) are the pepper fish and the lemongrass and chilli stir-fries. "For me, I work hard not to make money but because I want each restaurant to succeed. I want people to feel welcomed and to give them good food, just like in our Vietnamese home."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She learned from her beloved dad, that "food is love". When the Le family arrived in Canberra there were just four Vietnamese restaurants, now there are 22. "My dad, he loved to feed people. He didn't speak English very well, but he would walk around Civic and if he saw a person with black hair, he would talk to them in Vietnamese, and if they could talk back he would bring them home for dinner." A front page Canberra Times article from October 1988 chronicled the harrowing death of her father - by then a much-loved Canberra figure - from cancer at the age of 52. Ms Le was just 19. Mr Le's dying wish was to say goodbye to his mother, who he had not seen since boarding the wooden <b>boat</b> bound for Australia six years before. Mr Le put up an heroic struggle to survive two months while immigration officials rushed to put through the visa request - amazing</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">the nursing staff who were caring for him at the then Woden Valley Hospital. Each day he would open his eyes to ask whether his beloved mother had arrived, but an administrative mix-up saw the visa delayed beyond the point where he could hang on any longer. His mother was finally rushed to Australia, but her son had passed away and she missed his funeral. Ms Le said her family remained everything to her and one of the joys in operating a restaurant was that the family worked together, ate together, laughed together, and earned money to support other family members in Vietnam. Sue's 13-year-old daughter Stephanie is often called in after school and on holidays to help out but does not want to follow in her mum's</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">footsteps because "she works too hard!". The restaurant is regularly overrun with children, some of whom are fresh arrivals from Vietnam via sponsorship schemes from extended family members or staff. One such boy is 8-year-old Duong whose dad is the head chef and co- owner. Duong arrived in Canberra last year without a word of English, but is now happily settled at Ainslie Primary School, and can sometimes be found doing his homework at a table or doing odd jobs around the restaurant. He probably didn't realise he was helping serve the then Prime Minister's wife, Margie Abbott, when she brought one of of her daughters in for some Vietnamese fare one cold night last winter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">customers and some have followed me all around Canberra." The Pho Phu Quoc does a third of its trade in the heart-warming comfort food of pho, or Vietnamese soup, packed with fresh herbs and rice noodles. Each week Ms Le orders 14 kilograms of basil, and hundreds of kilograms of rice noodles to ensure her 100litre stock pots are always at capacity. She hand rolls up to 1000 spring rolls a week. The most popular dishes (apart from pho) are the pepper fish and the lemongrass and chilli stir-fries. "For me, I work hard not to make money but because I want each restaurant to succeed. I want people to feel welcomed and to give them good food, just like in our Vietnamese home."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She learned from her beloved dad, that "food is love". When the Le family arrived in Canberra there were just four Vietnamese restaurants, now there are 22. "My dad, he loved to feed people. He didn't speak English very well, but he would walk around Civic and if he saw a person with black hair, he would talk to them in Vietnamese, and if they could talk back he would bring them home for dinner." A front page Canberra Times article from October 1988 chronicled the harrowing death of her father - by then a much-loved Canberra figure - from cancer at the age of 52. Ms Le was just 19. Mr Le's dying wish was to say goodbye to his mother, who he had not seen since boarding the wooden <b>boat</b> bound for Australia six years before. Mr Le put up an heroic struggle to survive two months while immigration officials rushed to put through the visa request - amazing</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">the nursing staff who were caring for him at the then Woden Valley Hospital. Each day he would open his eyes to ask whether his beloved mother had arrived, but an administrative mix-up saw the visa delayed beyond the point where he could hang on any longer. His mother was finally rushed to Australia, but her son had passed away and she missed his funeral. Ms Le said her family remained everything to her and one of the joys in operating a restaurant was that the family worked together, ate together, laughed together, and earned money to support other family members in Vietnam. Sue's 13-year-old daughter Stephanie is often called in after school and on holidays to help out but does not want to follow in her mum's</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">footsteps because "she works too hard!". The restaurant is regularly overrun with children, some of whom are fresh arrivals from Vietnam via sponsorship schemes from extended family members or staff. One such boy is 8-year-old Duong whose dad is the head chef and co- owner. Duong arrived in Canberra last year without a word of English, but is now happily settled at Ainslie Primary School, and can sometimes be found doing his homework at a table or doing odd jobs around the restaurant. He probably didn't realise he was helping serve the then Prime Minister's wife, Margie Abbott, when she brought one of of her daughters in for some Vietnamese fare one cold night last winter.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">8: Something Wonderful: The Music of Rodgers and Hammerstein. Songs from seven hit musicals, including The Sound of Music. Theatre on Brunker, at St Stephen-?s Church Hall, Adamstown. To January 30. 4956 1263.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">23: Proof. Two former university students try to find out who came up with an amazing maths proof in David Auburn-?s gripping drama. Newcastle Theatre Company, at the NTC Theatre, Lambton. To February 6. 4952 4958.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">28: Newcastle Fringe Festival. 30 comedy, music, theatre, dance, cabaret, children-?s plays and circus events at five CBD venues over 10 days: Civic Playhouse, The Royal Exchange, Unorthodox Church of Groove, Newcastle Leagues Club and Christchurch Cathedral. Ends February 6. Details: newcastlefringe.com.au.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">5: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Six teenage finalists in a spelling contest deal with personal problems while competing; lively musical. Young People's Theatre, at Young People-?s Theatre, Hamilton. To February 27. 4961 4895.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">10: Therese Raquin. An affair between a married woman and a friend of her husband has disastrous consequences; Emile Zola-?s stage adaptation of his classic novel. Maitland Repertory Theatre, at its theatre. To February 27. 4931 2800.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">11: Avenue Q. Young people coming of age find their lifestyle options are limited and try to make changes; bright musical including colourful puppet characters. Pantseat Academy, at the Civic Playhouse, Newcastle. To February 13. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">11: Good Mourning, Mrs Brown. The title character and her family announce the funeral of Grandad Brown, hiding that he-?s still alive; comedy based on the TV show. Newcastle Entertainment Centre, Broadmeadow. To February 13. 4921 2121.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">12: Hotbed Hotel. A couple hoping to sell an empty hotel to a New York buyer come up with a room-filling plan, but things go wrong; comedy by Alan Parker. DAPA, at DAPA Theatre, Hamilton. To February 27. 4962 3270.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">12: Dawn French: Thirty Million Minutes. The actor and novelist looks at the funny things that have happened to her. <span class="companylink">Live Nation</span>, at the <span class="companylink">Civic Theatre</span>, Newcastle. February 12 only. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">13: Showstoppers - Curtain Call. Foot-tapping songs from Broadway musicals. Maitland Musical Society. Maitland City Bowling Club, February 13-14; East Cessnock Bowling Club, February 20-21; Hawks Nest Community Centre, February 27-28. trybooking.com.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">13: Maynardarama Newcastle-raised comedian Maynard looks at trying to find love in unlikely places. Royal Exchange, Newcastle. February 13 only. 4929 4969.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">13: Dust of Uruzgan. Composer and diplomat Fred Smith looks through story and song at the 18 months he spent in an area of Afghanistan and the experiences of Australian soldiers stationed there. Civic Theatre, at Fort Scratchley, Newcastle. February 13 only. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">16: 4000 Miles. A 21-year-old turns up unannounced to stay with his 91-year-old grandmother, and the two learn a lot about each other in Amy Herzog-?s touching comedy. Critical Stages, Catnip and MopHead Productions, at Cessnock Performing Arts Centre. February 16 only. 4990 7134.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">17: Hello, Stranger. Newcastle-?s Paper Cut Collective talked to people about their meetings with strangers and put the experiences into this amusing show. Audience joins bus at Civic Station to go to an undisclosed Newcastle location. To March 5. www.papercutpresents.com[http://www.papercutpresents.com].</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">18: The Empire Strips Back . . . AWAKENS!: A Star Wars Burlesque Parody. Go to the dark side with striptease, song and dance and comedy. Russell S. Beattie, at the <span class="companylink">Civic Theatre</span>, Newcastle. February 18 only. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">20: RAW Comedy 2016. Local contestants try to win a place in the Melbourne Comedy Festival. Civic Playhouse, Newcastle. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">23: Burn the Floor. The European champion dance company presents its new show, Fire in the Ballroom, including a rock opera segment. Dance Partner Productions, at the <span class="companylink">Civic Theatre</span>, Newcastle. February 23 only. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">26: Soul&Cirque. A live Motown-sound band and aerial and ground acrobats join in amazing routines. Lizotte-?s Newcastle, Lambton. February 26 only. 4956 2066.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">27: Broadway, Here I Come. Performers aged eight to 22 get the chance to show what they can do with musical theatre songs. Pantseat Performing Arts, at the Civic Playhouse, Newcastle. February 27 only. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">3: A Way Back to Then - Rachelle Schmidt Adnum and Dan Wilson In Concert. A funny look in music and song at successfully breaking life-?s rules. Lizotte-?s Newcastle, Lambton. To March 4. 4956 2066.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">4: Thunderbelly - The Musical. Gangs and brothel keepers compete in the 1920s to be powerful in Sydney; amusing spoof musical by Newcastle-?s Maureen O-?Brien. Maureen O-?Brien Productions, at Merewether Uniting Church Hall. To March 19. www.ticketbo.com.au[http://www.ticketbo.com.au].</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">5: Death and the Maiden. A woman tortured by a sadistic doctor while a political prisoner recognises his voice when he visits her husband; tense drama by Ariel Dorfman. Newcastle Theatre Company, at the NTC Theatre, Lambton. To March 19. 4952 4958.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">6: Raise the Roof -? Young Champions of 2016. Young musical performers show their skills. Lake Macquarie Musical Society, at Charlestown Uniting Church. March 6 only. 4943 1672.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">9: Evita. Musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice looking at the colourful life of Eva Peron, the popular wife of an Argentine president. The National Theatre Company, at the <span class="companylink">Civic Theatre</span>, Newcastle. To March 12. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">9: Punk Rock. Seven high-achieving students preparing for exams in a school library increasingly are involved in bullying and romance; comedy-drama by Simon Stephens. Stooged Theatre, at the Civic Playhouse. To March 12. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">17: Criminal Genius. Criminals engaged to burn down a restaurant keep sabotaging each other in this comedy by Canadian playwright George F. Walker; Australian premiere. The Regional Institute of Performing Arts, at the Civic Playhouse, Newcastle. To March 19. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">18: Vincent. Dance theatre work about the life, love and loss of painter Vincent Van Gogh. LissaJane Dance and Gosling Productions, at the <span class="companylink">Civic Theatre</span>, Newcastle. March 18 only. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">19: Burlesque Idol 2016. Competitors in an international burlesque competition put humour and audience participation into their routines. Lizotte-?s Newcastle. Lambton. March 19 only. 4956 2066.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">20: Sunday Lunch with John Smith - Deaf Comedian (UK). The experience of growing up deaf in a hearing world is amusingly put to the audience through words and sign language. Lizotte-?s Newcastle, Lambton. March 20 only. 4956 2066.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">25: Ice Age Live! A Mammoth Adventure. The Ice Age movies brought to life through ice skating, aerial arts, puppetry and film. TEG Live, Stage Entertainment Productions and Twentieth Century Fox, at Newcastle Entertainment Centre, Broadmeadow. To March 27. 4921 2121.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">30: Witness for the Prosecution. Tense Agatha Christie thriller about a man put on trial for murder and the views of people about his guilt or innocence. DAPA, at DAPA Theatre, Hamilton. To April 10. 4962 3270.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">30: The Divine Miss Bette. A bawdy Bette Midler goes bush to escape city life in Catherine Alcorn-?s song and comedy performance. Neil Gooding Productions, at Cessnock Performing Arts Centre. 4990 7134.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">31: Danny Bhoy -? Please Untick This Box. The razor-sharp British comedian brings a new show to Australia. Adrian Bohm, at the <span class="companylink">Civic Theatre</span>, Newcastle. March 31 only. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1: The 39 Steps. Lively and amusing adaptation by Patrick Barlow of Alfred Hitchcock-?s spy chase film, with four actors playing 150 roles. Theatre on Brunker, at St Stephen-?s Church Hall, Adamstown. To April 23. 4956 1263.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">4: Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom - Live on Stage! The elves and princesses from the TV show help tooth-fairy Nanny Plum and plan a surprise birthday party for King Thistle. Lifelike Touring, at the <span class="companylink">Civic Theatre</span>, Newcastle. April 4 only. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">7: The Regional Institute of Performing Arts acting diploma students present original plays and poetry. Civic Playhouse. To April 9. Watch for details. 4923 7595.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">7: Robyn Schall - New York Comedy Gala. The American comedian offers amusing tales about life in the Big Apple. Lizotte-?s Newcastle, Lambton. April 7 only. 4956 2066.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">8: The Pigs. The members of an American hillbillies family band present rousing songs and comedy anecdotes. Lizotte-?s Newcastle, Lambton. April 8 only. 4956 2066.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">9: Singalong to the Shows. Audience members join in singing favourite songs from stage and screen musicals. Adamstown Arts, at the Adamstown Uniting Church Dungeon. April 9 only. 4943 5316.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">11:<span class="companylink">Disney</span>-?s Mulan Jr. A misfit Chinese girl dresses in men-?s clothes and joins the army to help fight foreign invaders and save her family; heartwarming musical. Young People's Theatre, at Young People-?s Theatre, Hamilton. To May 21. 4961 4895.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">14: <span class="companylink">Disney</span>-?s High School Musical Jr. High school athletes surprise other students when they audition for the school musical; lively musical looking at teenage relationships. Pantseat Performing Arts, at the Civic Playhouse, Newcastle. To April 16. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">15: Scandal, Rumour, Innuendo! Jazz cabaret by David Baker and the Lounge Lizards Trio looking at political actions, court cases and other events that led to the writing of memorable songs. The Royal Exchange, Newcastle. To April 16. 4929 4969.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">15: Cash on Delivery. A con artist who has claimed dole benefits for fictional people supposedly living with him faces a welfare investigation in Michael Cooney-?s brisk farce. Newcastle G and S Players Comedy Club, at St. Matthew-?s Hall, Georgetown. To April 30. 0432 886 149.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">16: The One Day of the Year. A university student questions the way his father and ex-military friends celebrate Anzac Day in Alan Seymour-?s engaging drama. Newcastle Theatre Company, at the NTC Theatre, Lambton. To April 30. 4952 4958.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">16: Jack of Hearts. A man on hard times hits on a smooth way of romancing his partner when she looks at starting a relationship with a more successful man; comedy by David Williamson. Ensemble Theatre, at the <span class="companylink">Civic Theatre</span>, Newcastle. April 16 only. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">17: Magical Lunch with Jay Scott Berry. A magician renowned for his amazing sleight-of-hand offers close-up views of his skills. Lizotte-?s Newcastle, Lambton. April 17 only. 4956 2066.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">20: The Little Prince. A pilot whose plane crashes in the desert meets a young prince from a far-away asteroid in this adaptation by Newcastle-?s Jerry Ray of Antoine de Saint-Exupery-?s colourful tale. The Royal Exchange, Newcastle. To April 24. 0429 434 974.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">20: Ross Noble - Brain Dump. A new show from the comedian renowned for his off-the-cuff skills and engaging tomfoolery. A List Entertainment, at the <span class="companylink">Civic Theatre</span>, Newcastle. April 20 only. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">21: The Wasteland. Play developed by Tantrum Youth Arts acting students in a school holiday acting course. Hunter Wetlands Centre, Shortland. April 21 only. 4929 7279.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">22: Live Live Cinema - Little Shop of Horrors. Actors and musicians deliver the dialogue and music of a classic 1960 horror film live while it is projected behind them. Jumpboard Productions NZ, at the <span class="companylink">Civic Theatre</span>, Newcastle. April 22 only. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">27: Funny Money. A man who picks up the wrong case finds it-?s full of money, and the mob boss who owns the bag pursues him; comedy by Ray Cooney. Maitland Repertory Theatre, at its theatre. To May 14. 4931 2800.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">May: Boy Overboard. An Afghan boy on a <b>refugee boat</b> headed to Australia dreams of playing soccer for his new country; adaptation by Patricia Cornelius of Morris Gleitzman-?s moving novel about <b>asylum</b> seekers. Upstage Youth Theatre, Maitland. Watch for details. 0402 331 197.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">6: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. A Roman slave promises to get his master the woman he loves in return for freedom; funny musical with Stephen Sondheim songs. Club 71, at St Peter-?s Hall, Hamilton. To May 28. 4942 6015.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">5: The Peasant Prince. A 10-year-old Chinese country boy is taken from his country home to a city ballet school; adapted from the children-?s book by Li Cunxin. Monkey Baa Theatre Co, at the <span class="companylink">Civic Theatre</span>, Newcastle. May 5 only. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">8: Mothers Day Lunch with The Michael Buble Experience. Newcastle-?s Mitch Capone in his acclaimed show about singer Michael Buble. Lizotte-?s Newcastle, Lambton. May 8 only. 4956 2066.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">13: Emma. A spoiled and headstrong young woman delights in arranging matches for others, though she-?s not interested in getting married; adapted by Pamela Whalan from Jane Austen-?s novel (premiere production). DAPA, at DAPA Theatre, Hamilton. To May 29. 4962 3270.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">16: Roald Dahl Festival 2016. Plays and performances for children and adults drawn from Roald Dahl stories, poems and characters. Hunter Drama, at the Civic Playhouse, Newcastle. To May 22. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">17: The 52-Storey Treehouse. Andy and Terry set off from their larger treehouse to solve the disappearance of Mr Big Nose; adapted by Richard Tulloch from the children-?s book by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton. CDP Productions, at the <span class="companylink">Civic Theatre</span>, Newcastle. To May 18. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">21: Swing. A divorced father meets a woman attending a dance class while her boyfriend is away, and a romance develops; comedy, with rock and roll music. Merrigong Theatre Company, at Cessnock Performing Arts Centre. May 21 only. 4990 7134.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">21: Encore! The Best of Broadway. Classic songs presented by Newcastle musical theatre performers and a 50-member orchestra. The National Theatre Company, at the <span class="companylink">Civic Theatre</span>, Newcastle. To May 22. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">26: Stories of Love and Hate. Moving and funny look at the 2005 Cronulla riots, with writer Roslyn Oade-?s characters drawn from 65 interviews with residents. The Regional Institute of Performing Arts, at the Civic Playhouse, Newcastle. To May 28. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">27: God of Carnage. Two pairs of parents become increasingly agitated when they meet to discuss a fight between their children; sharp comedy by Yasmina Reza. Valley Artists, at Laguna Hall. To June 4. 4998 3419.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1: The History Boys. An unruly bunch of bright senior schoolboys plan for their futures, aided by a bemused teacher; witty comedy by Alan Bennett. Young People's Theatre, at Young People-?s Theatre, Hamilton. To June 11. 4961 4895.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">4: Robert Gott-?s Good Murder. The inept director of a travelling theatre company uses his acting to help clear his name when he is charged with murder; comic thriller by Robert Gott, adapted for the stage by Newcastle-?s Stewart McGowan. Newcastle Theatre Company, at the NTC Theatre, Lambton. To June 18. 4952 4958.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">4: Lake Macquarie Speech and Drama Eisteddfod. Lake Macquarie Performing Arts Centre, Warners Bay. To June 5. 4943 1672.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">8: Trailer. A teenage boy whose father vanished long ago believes he has seen him in films and their trailers and searches for him; drama by Vanessa Bates. Tantrum Youth Arts, at the Civic Playhouse, Newcastle. To June 11. 4929 1977. Also at the Arts House, Wyong, May 12, and the Australian Theatre for Young People, Sydney, June 1 to 4.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">9: Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow. Fest performers raise laughs around Australia. Cessnock Performing Arts Centre, June 9. 4990 7134. Civic Theatre, Newcastle, June 10-12. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">10: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Residents in a small town take up the cause of an illegal brothel when a crusading television reporter tries to have it closed; bright satirical musical. Theatre on Brunker and Novocastrian Players, at St Stephen-?s Church Hall, Adamstown. To June 25. 4956 1263.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">15: The Marriage of Figaro. Things go amusingly awry when officials interfere with the marriage plans of a royal court valet in Mozart-?s comic opera. Opera Hunter, at Lake Macquarie Performing Arts Centre, Warners Bay. To June 26. 4943 1672.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">22: S-27. A young woman employed as a photographer in a third world country prison finds herself in conflict with vicious officials; drama by Sarah Grochala based on true events in Cambodia. Two Tall Theatre, at the Royal Exchange, Newcastle. To June 26. 4929 4969.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">24: Newcastle and Hunter Region Drama and Singing Festival. DAPA Theatre, Hamilton. Drama, June 24 to 26; Singing, July 1 to 3. 4962 3270.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">25: CounterMove. Dance double bill, including modern art parody and tribute Cacti, and Lux Tenebris, which shows light emerging in a dark place. Sydney Dance Company, at the <span class="companylink">Civic Theatre</span>, Newcastle. June 25 only. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">28: The Moon's a Balloon. Eloquent children-?s theatre work looking at youngsters using their imaginations to create a happy world. Patch Theatre, at Cessnock Performing Arts Centre. June 28 only. 4990 7134.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">30: Ladies Night! Four unemployed men put together a male stripping act to raise fast cash and find themselves pursued by women; hit comedy by New Zealanders Anthony McCarten and Stephen Sinclair. Cessnock Performing Arts Centre. June 30 only. 4990 7134.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">3: Raise the Roof: Memories of Great Australian Artists. Performers look at the role played in music and theatre by musical talents Joan Sutherland, Dame Nellie Melba, Peter Allen and others. Lake Macquarie Music Society, at Charlestown Uniting Church. July 3 only. 4943 1672.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">4: Three Little Pigs. The title characters amusingly battle the inept Wolf in this bright children-?s musical by William Ford. Young People's Theatre, at Young People-?s Theatre, Hamilton. To August 13. 4961 4895.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">7: Dags. A 16-year-old girl without a boyfriend has an eye on her school-?s most attractive male student, but amusing events interfere with her romantic pursuit; bright comedy by Debra Oswald. Pantseat Performing Arts, at the Civic Playhouse, Newcastle. To July 9. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">8: <span class="companylink">Disney</span> On Ice presents Magical Ice Festival. The worlds of the films Frozen, The Little Mermaid, Tangled and Beauty and the Beast come to life on ice. Feld Entertainment, at Newcastle Entertainment Centre, Broadmeadow. To July 10. 4921 2121.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">8: The Wharf Revue. The staging team celebrate 15 years of revues with sketches from previous shows together with amusing comments on today-?s events. Sydney Theatre Company, at the Civic Theatre Newcastle. To July 9. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">8: Junior Repertory production, Maitland Repertory Theatre. To July 24. Watch for details. 4931 2800.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">14: Snugglepot & Cuddlepie. The Gumnut babies travel to a city to see humans, encountering the Big Bad Banksia Man and others on their journey; adapted from May Gibbs-? books. CDP Productions and Monkey Baa Theatre, at Cessnock Performing Arts Centre, July 14 only: 4990 7134. Also at <span class="companylink">Civic Theatre</span>, Newcastle, August 15 and 16: 4929 1977..</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">15: Hairspray. Local young performers join professional actors in this musical about a teenage girl seeking equality for herself and others. Harvest Rain, at Newcastle Entertainment Centre, Broadmeadow. To July 17. 4921 2121.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">16: Noises Off. Actors in a second-rate touring company have as many problems offstage as on in Michael Frayn-?s witty farcical comedy. Newcastle Theatre Company, at the NTC Theatre, Lambton. To July 30. 4952 4958.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">26: The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer. The title character heads to the bottom of the sea in search of his wife in this colourful post-apocalyptic story. The Last Great Hunt, at the <span class="companylink">Civic Theatre</span>, Newcastle. To July 27. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">28: Suicide, Incorporated. An employee at a company which helps people write suicide notes becomes increasingly concerned about the issues that lead to suicides; dark comedy by Andrew Hinderaker. Knock And Run Theatre, at the Newcastle Community Arts Centre Black Box Theatre, Hamilton. To July 30. 0432 389 406.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">29: Mixed Doubles: Two One-Act Plays. Love and Other Flushes, comedy with a wise-cracking plumber trying to help a young couple with marriage problems, and Big Cats, drama about an elderly widow facing her home-?s demolition. DAPA, at DAPA Theatre, Hamilton. To August 16. 4962 3270.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">29: Country Song. An indigenous singer treks around Australia helping his people; story by Reg Cribb inspired by the life of Jimmy Little. Queensland Theatre Company and Queensland Performing Arts Centre, at the <span class="companylink">Civic Theatre</span>, Newcastle. To July 30. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">August: Trajectory 1. Site specific work, set in the Lake Macquarie Art Gallery sculpture garden at Booragul, with stories built around the art works and lakeside setting. Tantrum Youth Arts. Watch for details. 4929 7279.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">4: A Chorus Line. Dancers audition for chorus roles in a new musical, with chats with the show-?s director revealing sad and amusing things about their lives; lively musical. Pantseat Performing Arts, at the Civic Playhouse. To August 6. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">5: Play in a Day 7. Writers, directors and actors get together to develop short plays, with the works presented the next night. Newcastle Theatre Company, at the NTC Theatre, Lambton. Performance on August 6. 4952 4958.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">9: The Snow Queen. Writer Pamela Whalan amusingly brings together in this musical Hans Anderson-?s fairy story about a young boy who becomes a victim of the title character and life in contemporary Newcastle. DAPA, at DAPA Theatre, Hamilton. To August 18. 4962 3270.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">10: Blood Bank. A young man waiting to give blood for his ill brother and an attractive young woman become involved in a surprising love story; comedy by Newcastle-?s Christopher Harley. Stooged Theatre, at the Civic Playhouse, Newcastle. To August 13. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">11: Encoded. A dance work that explores conceptions of physical space through aerial acrobatics and contemporary dance. Stalker Theatre, at the <span class="companylink">Civic Theatre</span>. August 11 only. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">12: Titus Andronicus. A military leader seeks revenge against those responsible for his son-?s death, setting off bloody conflicts in William Shakespeare-?s play. Maitland Repertory-?s Reamus Youth Theatre, at Maitland Repertory Theatre. To August 27. 4931 2800.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">13: Rolling Thunder Vietnam - Songs That Defined A Generation. Return season of the show bringing together stories about the impact of the Vietnam War on people-?s lives and 1960s and 70s songs. Blake Entertainment, at the <span class="companylink">Civic Theatre</span>, Newcastle. August 13 only. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">15: Snugglepot & Cuddlepie. Civic Theatre, Newcastle. To August 16. 4929 1977. For details, see July 14 Cessnock Performing Arts Centre entry.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">24: Wicked. Lively musical about the unlikely friendship that developed between two young women who became rival witches in The Wizard of Oz. Metropolitan Players, at the <span class="companylink">Civic Theatre</span>, Newcastle. To September 3. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">27: Love, Love, Love. Bright comedy by Mike Bartlett about two people who meet as university students in the 1960s, marry, and experience ups and downs over 40 years. Newcastle Theatre Company, at the NTC Theatre, Lambton. To September 10. 4952 4958.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">August-September: Sunday performances of absurd theatre plays by Young People-?s Theatre members, at Young People-?s Theatre, Hamilton. Watch for details. 4961 4895.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">September: Contemporary drama. Pencil Case Productions, at the Royal Exchange, Newcastle. Watch for details.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">September: The Gilbert and Sullivan Story. Premiere of a new musical, using G and S songs, that looks at how things in the composing team-?s lives affected their shows. Maitland Musical Society. Watch for details.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">8: Aida - The Musical. Elton John-?s soft rock version of a classical story about the forbidden love affair between a slave princess and an Egyptian prince; NSW premiere. Pantseat Academy, at the Civic Playhouse, Newcastle. To September 10. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">8: Othello. A warrior engaged in a passionate marriage questions the fidelity of his bride when a treacherous colleague begins spreading false rumours; gripping tragedy by William Shakespeare. Bell Shakespeare, at the <span class="companylink">Civic Theatre</span>, Newcastle. To September 9. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">14: Blithe Spirit. A man is caught between two wives in Noel Coward-?s lively comedy when a medium calls up the spirit of his dead first wife. Maitland Repertory Theatre, at its theatre. To October 1. 4931 2800.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">17: Sydney Comedy Festival Showcase. Top fest performers deliver the laughs. Civic Theatre, Newcastle. September 17 only. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">24: Lake Macquarie Eisteddfod. Vocal and other musical sections. Lake Macquarie Performing Arts Centre, Warners Bay. To October 3.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">29: Shrek - The Musical Jr. Ogre Shrek agrees to rescue a princess from a dragon-guarded tower to save his swamp; bright fairy tale musical. Hunter Drama, at the <span class="companylink">Civic Theatre</span>, Newcastle. To October 1. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">23: Manning the Fort. A look at the forgotten roles of women who -?manned-? the observation posts at Fort Scratchley in World War II, watching for enemy vessels. Tantrum Youth Arts, at Fort Scratchley, Newcastle. To October 10. 4929 7279.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">29: The Listies 6D. Children-?s comedy about movies and the work that goes into making them, with a film produced during the show. The Listies, at Cessnock Performing Arts Centre. September 29 only. 4990 7134.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Oct: Bridge to Terabithia. A boy who feels alienated from his family and a new girl in town create a safe fantasy kingdom, Terabithia; musical adaptation of Katherine Paterson-?s children-?s novel. Upstage Youth Theatre, Maitland. Watch for details. 0402 331 197.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1: Trajectory 2. Site specific work, set in the Newcastle CBD. Tantrum Youth Arts, in association with the Crack Theatre Festival. To October 3. Watch for details. 4929 7279.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">3: Bugsy Malone. Amusing musical written for young performers showing the relationships between gangsters and molls in the 1930s. Young People-?s Theatre, at Young People-?s Theatre, Hamilton. To November 5. 4961 4895.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">7: The Odd Couple (Female Version). Two very different women who share a New York apartment get involved in funny mishaps; Neil Simon-?s reworking of his male The Odd Couple. Theatre on Brunker, at St Stephen-?s Church Hall, Adamstown. To October 29. 4956 1263.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">7: The Nerd. A young architect is visited by a man he has never met but who saved his life in Vietnam, and the arrival of the inept nerd leads to chaos; comedy by Larry Shue. DAPA, at DAPA Theatre, Hamilton. To October 22. 4962 3270.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">8: Other Desert Cities. A family Christmas get-together becomes increasingly more chaotic as more skeletons are revealed in Jon Robin Baitz-?s comedy. Newcastle Theatre Company, at the NTC Theatre, Lambton. To October 22. 4952 4958.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">12: Hecuba Reimagined. Contemporary reworking by Carl Caulfield of a classic Greek play by Euripides about the impact of a long and destructive war on the lives of a female ruler and her family. Civic Playhouse, Newcastle. To October 22. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">14: Flat Spin. Chaos results when an out-of-work actress is mistaken by a man seeking romance for the woman whose flat she is minding; comedy by Alan Ayckbourn. Club 71, at St Peter-?s Hall, Hamilton. To November 5. 4942 6015.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">27: The Spoon River Project. A look at the lives of people in a small town; drawn from Edgar Lee Masters-? Spoon River Anthology, and devised and performed by Hunter Drama-?s <span class="companylink">Acting Company</span>. Civic Playhouse, Newcastle. To October 29. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">29: Elf -? The Musical. An orphan boy who becomes an elf when he crawls into Santa-?s toy bag helps relatives to find the meaning of Christmas when he returns from the North Pole. DAPA, at DAPA Theatre, Hamilton. To November 12. 4962 3270.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2: Stooged Theatre production, at the Civic Playhouse, Newcastle. To November 5. Watch for details. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">4: Deathtrap. Life imitates fiction when a playwright in desperate need of a hit plans to steal a promising thriller by one of his students; comedy-drama by Ira Levin. Valley Artists, at Laguna Hall. To November 12. 4998 3419.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">11: Nunsensations! The Nunsense Vegas Revue. A group of nuns are offered a large contribution to their school fund if they will perform in Las Vegas; bright musical by Dan Goggin. Maitland Musical Society and Maitland Repertory Theatre, at Maitland Repertory Theatre. To December 3. 4931 2800.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">18: Dorothy Parker . . . Don-?t Look at Me in That Tone of Voice. A jazz cabaret by David Baker looking at the life and times of New York-?s acerbic and witty jazz age queen. The Royal Exchange, Newcastle. To November 19. 4929 4969.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">18: Hissyfest 2016 - Out of Place. Short new plays built around the title theme. Tantrum Youth Arts, at the Civic Playhouse, Newcastle. To November 19. 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">19: Festive Spirit. Patience and sanity are tested when a family gets together for a Christmas celebration; new comedy by Newcastle-?s Sally Davies. Newcastle Theatre Company, at the NTC Theatre, Lambton. To December 3. 4952 4958.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">26: <span class="companylink">Disney</span>-?s Winnie the Pooh (Kids). Pooh Bear and his friends join together to rescue friend Christopher Robin from a Hundred Acre Wood invader; lively children-?s musical show. Young People's Theatre, at Young People-?s Theatre, Hamilton. 4961 4895.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">26: City of Newcastle Drama Awards. The 38th annual CONDA Awards recognise theatrical achievement in and around Newcastle. West-?s Leagues Starlight Room, New Lambton. 4935 1200.</p>
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THANH NGUYEN, OAM</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Thanh Nguyen arrived in Australia 36 years ago on a <b>refugee boat</b> after fleeing Vietnam with his family. He had just been released after spending five years in prison for his role as a South Vietnam army officer during the war.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This Australia Day, he was awarded a Medal in the General Division of the Order of Australia for his service to the Vietnamese community of NSW. As a caseworker for Vietnamese drug offenders, Mr Nguyen believes his own experience in prison has helped him to empathise with the people with whom he works. "When we come out of prison, we have the same situation. We have nothing at all, no support. I can understand and help them," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Nguyen has led numerous projects for the Vietnamese community, while also looking beyond Australia and organising fundraisers for refugees and victims of natural disasters worldwide.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They include the famous, top ­tennis stars of two eras, an airline pilot who nursed his superjumbo to safety when it was as shot-up as the Memphis Belle, and one of the country’s pop queens.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the Australia Day honours list also heralds some who have done heroic deeds out of the spotlight, including a nurse who has ensured hundreds of terminally ill children have passed their final time in dignity and comfort, and a navy warrant officer whose actions helped save dozens of ­<b>asylum</b>-seekers when their <b>boat</b> exploded.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Among those to be awarded the highest honour, the AC or Companion in the general division of the Order of Australia, is businesswoman and philanthropist Susan Alberti. Ms Alberti’s blend of service includes as a leading advocate for medical research and a tireless promoter of women’s sports. Her foundation, the Susan Alberti Medical Res­earch Foundation, has donated millions to various causes over the years, and Ms Alberti has garnered a reputation as a master networker and skilled lobbyist who is able to work with both sides of politics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last year saw the first ever women’s AFL match played on live television, generating significant excitement about the prospect of a professional women’s league by 2017. “It was such a big year for women’s sport,” Ms Alberti told The Australian.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Other ACs went to former South Australian premier Mike Rann, physicist and engineer Chennupati Jagadish, businessman and banker Robert Joss, barrister and academic Allan Myers and his wife Maria, NSW chief scientist and engineer Mary O’Kane, medical scientist Robert Ouvrier, chief judge John Pascoe and tennis legend Rod Laver.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Laver, 77, has 11 grand slam ­singles to his name, including three Australian Opens, and won five Davis Cups. “The biggest thrill was to represent my country in Davis Cup and I regard that as the pinnacle of my career — something I look back on with great pride,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another tennis great, Lleyton Hewitt, 43 years Laver’s junior, was made a Member (AM) in the general division, just days after the 34-year-old brought his professional playing career to a close in his traditional, never-give-up, “C’mon” fashion at the Australian Open. “Whenever I’ve played overseas — and that’s been quite often — there’s always been a few Aussies in the crowd,” Hewitt told The Australian. “Even unlikely places far from home, there’s always someone yelling ‘Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi’.” Mr Rann was appointed for his service as premier of South Australia and, as a diplomat, for “the advancement of Australia’s diplomatic, trade and cultural ­relationships”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lawyer Elizabeth Broderick, who served as sex discrimination commissioner from 2007 to 2015, has been appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia for “distinguished service to the community through seminal contri­butions to human rights, to the prevention of violence against women and children, to public administration, and to the law.” In 2010, Qantas pilot Richard de Crespigny famously brought his crippled A380, the unforgettable Flight QF32, safely back to Singapore’s Changi airport after its No 2 engine exploded, sending shrapnel into the wing. He has been appointed a member (AM) in the general division.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">London bombing survivor Gill Hicks received an AM more than a decade after losing both legs and almost dying, in a 2005 terrorist ­attack in central London. The Adelaide-based doctor says she still feels the full spectrum of emotions, particularly anger, when news of terrorism reaches her. “I now live a life without legs and to look at that as such a simplistic act; the taking of my legs has not forwarded any cause,’’ she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">David Gallop has been awarded an AM for “significant service to sports administration through executive roles with football and rugby league organisations, and to the community’’. For much of the past 13 years Gallop has been the calm face at the centre of a crisis in Australia’s highest-profile sports, first at the NRL and now as chief executive of Football Federation Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the performing arts, singer Tina Arena has been appointed a member, just two months after she was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame by Kylie Minogue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Among the medals (OAM) in this year’s honours list, one goes to Narelle Martin, the nursing manager of Bear Cottage, NSW’s only dedicated, 24-hour children’s palliative care hospice.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the military division of the Order of Australia, Royal Australian Navy Warrant Officer Rachelle Burnett has been awarded the medal for service including “her treatment of casualties on board HMAS Childers after an explosion on Suspected Irregular Entry Vessel 36.” She directed operations from the <b>boat</b> deck near Ashmore Island on April 16, 2009, when the SIEV 36 became a fireball.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">more reports P7 Full list P8-9 Editorial P15 Arts P17Business P19, 23</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AUSTRALIA DAY HONOURS RACHELLE BURNETT OAM</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She has been in the navy only 18 years, but Warrant Officer ­Rachelle Burnett’s action-packed career has so far included destroying tonnes of illicit drugs mid-ocean, treating blown-up <b>asylum</b>-seekers near Ashmore Island and hunting for <span class="companylink">Malaysia Airlines</span> MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That’s on top of deployments to East Timor during the height of the independence conflict and serving in the Middle East during 9/11.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For all this service, Burnett has been awarded the OAM in the military division of the Order of Australia. “Warrant Officer Burnett demonstrated inspirational leadership, courage, determination and innovation during two deployments to the Middle East region, border protection operations and the search for <span class="companylink">Malaysia Airlines</span> Flight MH370,” the cita­tion says. “Her treatment of casualties on board HMAS Childers following an explosion on Suspected Irregular Entry Vessel 36, whole ship co-ordination and leadership of HMAS Toowoomba’s Narcotics Disposal Team were instrumental to the operational success.” Burnett says it’s all part of the job she loves. “This is what the navy does.” While former prime minister Tony Abbott’s policy of turning back <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats was predicated on “when it’s safe to do so”, Burnett’s ­experience shows that it’s not always safe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She directed operations from the <b>boat</b> deck near Ashmore ­Island on April 16, 2009, when the SIEV 36 became a fireball.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We were in the middle of boarding operations and the SIEV exploded,” Burnett said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I was standing on the bridge of the Childers and you could feel the explosion just move through your body, it was so powerful.” Nine of the crew of the patrol <b>boat</b> had been in the boarding party at the time of the explosion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They all had burns and a couple had shrapnel pieces in the legs and one guy had a broken ankle,” Burnett said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She took charge of the recovery operation. There were 31 casualties, 27 described as critical.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We were just pulling as many people out of the water as quickly as we could just to save lives.” Burnett had been trained as a paramedic, but fortunately a military doctor happened to be on board.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“With Dr Jo Darby we started to establish a bit of a triage,” Burnett said. “To have that many casualties on board a small patrol <b>boat</b> not built for that is pretty extreme.” Burnett has also had military police duties — including destroying tonnes of drugs, but she won’t say how.Burnett, who is originally from the NSW central coast, is currently working in Canberra preparing personnel for the introduction of new frigates.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>955 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26 January 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>B004</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Can Australia Day be reshaped for the better?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">f I ever dared criticise Australia - or the Australian government - I would be on the receiving end of an angry lecture from my <b>refugee</b> parents. It was OK for them to be (slightly) critical of the more relaxed Australian way of life. But not for me. To my parents, Australia was golden. It was the only country which would take two Jews and their jaundiced baby girl from what was then called a displaced person's camp. We call them <b>refugee</b> camps now. And when they arrived here in 1951, they came by <b>boat</b>, after nearly six years in the limbo of <b>refugee</b> life, their gratitude was glorious. I've written about this before - about the way being accepted as a <b>refugee</b> has an enormous impact on the way you view your new country. I was the first in my family to be born in Australia and to my parents, that was a very big deal. I was the lucky one. Took them then another five years to feel it really was safe enough to have a third kid (hello, darling brother). I am first generation. When I say that now, despite my years of privilege, I still get goosebumps. I have inherited gratitude. People in</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia were and are sometimes vile about Jews but they don't betray them to the authorities. They don't shoot them in the back of the head. This is not to forgive anti-semitism in any respect, because it is at the heart of genocide; but genocide only exists in Australia for one group of people; and it isn't Jews. Of course, like most of us, I abandoned some aspects of the values of my parents and grew out of hiding my displeasure at the government, even though I know that both my parents would be appalled at my critique of governments past and present. The gratitude should outweigh the analysis. I wonder if my parents would have come around to my way of thinking if they knew how the Australian government treats refugees now. Australia Day was huge in my family. My parents worked 11 days a week but Australia Day was a serious celebration. We'd go to Nielsen Park in Sydney's Vaucluse and swim. Or what passed for swimming in my family, breaststroke without putting your face in the water (it is with some pride that my offspring can all swim freestyle and breathe on both sides. Pride and amazement. How do people actually put their faces in water and live?) So in 1988, when I was pregnant with my second child, I'd planned January 26 events very carefully. Watch boats. Have picnics. Watch Aboriginal dancing. See fireworks. Be extremely grateful. I was. Two years later, we organised a holiday up on the far north coast with another family. The topic of</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia Day came up and they were hugely critical. I burst into tears. Of course, they were right. And wrong. And I was right and so wrong. Nearly 30 years ago, when I had that fight with my friends Robin and Neil, Australia Day was still acceptable and it's become less acceptable now. For me, then, it was a time to celebrate being in country which didn't kill me or reject me or exclude me in a systematic way. But it marks the day when the colonisers of Australia began to kill, reject and exclude the Aboriginal people. Or, as Stan Grant put it when</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">describing how the brilliant Swan Adam Goodes was treated last year: "I can tell you what we heard when we heard those boos, we heard a sound that was very familiar to us ... we heard a howl of humiliation that echoes across two centuries of dispossession, injustice, suffering and survival. We heard the howl of the Australian dream and it said to us again, you're not welcome." I doubt there could ever be a day when Aboriginal people could or would celebrate the colonisation of this land or the formation of this nation nor should we ever question the motives of anyone who doesn't want to take part in a joyless</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">jamboree. Australia Day is connected to the destruction of another culture, this country's first people, although we must acknowledge that every day, the life expectancy, the education, the health, gap between Aboriginal and whites continues to exist. As Grant says later in his speech at the IQ2 racism debate last year: "My people die young in this country, we die 10 years younger than average Australians and we are far from free." If we move Australia Day, it allows a bunch of martyr rightists to claim Aboriginal activists won. If we don't move Australia Day, we ignore the destruction of the Aboriginal people. But we could change Australia Day, make it a time when we can account for ourselves and our progress. January 26 will always be a day of mourning and it could also be a time when we examine the state of the nation and all who live here. It will also make it possible for those of us who were given shelter here to give thanks for that shelter. A friend wrote to me to say he's had enough of being a continuing unwilling protagonist in the war against Australia's Indigenous people. Me too. We have become unwilling parties to the war on Aborigines. Could Australia Day be reshaped, away from drunkenness and celebrations, towards acknowledgement, reconciliation and peace?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Follow me on <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> @jennaprice or email jennapricejournalist@gmail.com</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020160125ec1q00017</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AGEE000020160124ec1p00019" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>How saving refugees changed a lifesaver</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Neelima Choahan   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>443 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 January 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Barely 24 hours into his nine-day mission to save refugees from drowning, Simon Lewis found himself confronted with a mother trying to hand her baby to the lifesavers across the choppy waters of the Aegean Sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We were in an IRB [inflatable dinghy], five metres from the <b>boat</b> and one of the mothers turned and offered her baby, she thought it was better than being in the <b>refugee boat</b>," Mr Lewis said.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"This is the middle of the Aegean Sea, we were two kilometres off the shore, in one metre waves. The baby could have fallen straight out of her hand.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We had to pull away and [she was so] distraught. It is an image that will stay in my head."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The St Kilda Lifesaving Club captain has just returned from volunteering for the International Surf Lifesaving Association's maiden joint venture with Greece's Lifeguard Hellas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Lewis was the only Australian in an international team of six international surf lifesavers going to the coast of Lesbos, the landing place for thousands of Syrian refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Together his team helped 517 refugees, ranging from six-month-old babies to 80-year-olds.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Lewis said though the expedition had moments of "sheer happiness", it was also very confronting.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It's that ingrained fear of life, stress and exhaustion that they have on their face. It wasn't just one <b>boat</b>, it was daily," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Here am I, happy-go-lucky Aussie, it was like a tidal wave of emotionally-distraught people. It just gets to you, you can't help it."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Apart from lending a hand, the 32-year-old also managed to crowdsource $22,570 at gofundme.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The money enabled Mr Lewis to buy a jet-ski for the Greek lifeguards and repair their old one.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said the purchase had allowed them to set up a rapid response team akin to Western Australia's Wesfarmers Lifesaver Jet-Ski Team.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"[The Greek lifeguards] have a product called Centifloat ... [a] 100-metre long tube which has ropes on it so when the boats sinks they put this near the boats ... so the refugees grab on to it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The Centifloat is tied to the jet-ski ... they had a <b>boat</b> [but] ... by the time they launched the <b>boat</b>, the people were already drowning.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"So this way they can launch the jet-skis and be on the water within three minutes."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Lewis said the mission had changed his life "dramatically".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I don't think I could go back to who I was before I had this experience," he said.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AGEE000020160124ec1p00019</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SAGE000020160123ec1o00026" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Extra - Opinion</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Being, um, inspired by those kooky North Koreans</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daniel Flitton  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>676 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 January 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sunday Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SAGE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>30</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Daniel Flitton reckons the government should pinch ALP ideas on refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last week, in a notable coup, the news organisation Agence France-Presse struck a deal to open a bureau in North Korea.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Pyongyang Foreign Correspondent's Club isn't exactly teeming with members, and even though AFP's presence is unlikely to be a harbinger of newfound openness in the Hermit Kingdom, this ranks as quite an achievement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What on earth does media access to one of the world's most closeted countries have to do with Australia's <b>asylum</b> seeker debate, you may ask? It's the lesson of sheer bloody persistence in taking a gradual step towards solving a problem. If a French news company can spend roughly three years in what you can only imagine must have been tedious and frustrating negotiations with North Korean state officials to open an office, surely Australians and our politicians can genuinely make a civil effort to move beyond the present impasse over <b>asylum</b> seekers held in detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That moment is now. We must have this debate, because fed up as the nation may be with the 15-year contest over how Australia manages would-be refugees, the problem has not gone away, only changed. The boats have stopped and that must be underlined. This has been achieved after years of vexed argument and forced compromise, pledging refugees arriving by <b>boat</b> will never be settled in Australia (Labor's idea, adopted by the Coalition), banishing <b>asylum</b> seekers to detention facilities in the Pacific for assessment of their claims (originally Coalition policy, co-opted by Labor), and by turning vessels back from whence they came (done by the Coalition, a practice Labor now promises to continue).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum</b> seekers are no longer drowning in untold numbers in the waters between Java and Christmas Island. But the problem in <b>refugee</b> policy does not stop with boats, which is why the government cannot afford to simply leave the issue at rest. Given the history of policy plagiarism on both sides, the Coalition may do well to brazenly pinch an idea from their Labor opponents.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That idea involves resolving the fate of nearly 1500 refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers who are on Manus Island and Nauru because Australia has put them there. As it stands, there is no real prospect of these people going anywhere else, and the government knows this situation is unsustainable. Blaming Labor for creating the problem only gets the Coalition a period of grace that is fast disappearing as the damage caused by holding people in limbo for years becomes apparent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Resettlement deals with Cambodia - or attempts to strike similar arrangements with the Philippines, Kyrgyzstan or Solomon Islands - will only ever result in a new home for a handful of refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What will also be required is an agreement from other resettlement countries in Europe or North America to offer those people on Nauru and Manus Island a home. Labor's shadow immigration spokesman Richard Marles set out a plan last month for Australia to dramatically increase funding and engagement with the <span class="companylink">United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees</span> and, with the imprimatur of <span class="companylink">UNHRC</span>, to find "viable third country resettlement arrangements" for those in the camps.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Overcoming the toxic reputation of the so-called "Pacific solution" won't be easy. But Australia's geographic reality is of country surrounded by a dangerous moat. The government must convince <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> that refusing to settle people arriving by <b>boat</b> is consistent with humanitarian obligations, because it saves lives. Permitting this exception should allow Australia to be far more generous settling refugees from the world's hotspots.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coalition did actually pledge to increase Australia's <b>refugee</b> intake while in opposition, only to renege, claiming budget pressures. Maybe it's time for a little North Korean "newspeak" and for the government to re-write history, resolve the fate of people languishing on Nauru and Manus Island, and ensure <b>refugee</b> policy is stronger for the future.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gpol : Domestic Politics | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nkorea : North Korea | austr : Australia | fra : France | victor : Victoria (Australia) | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | easiaz : Eastern Asia | eecz : European Union Countries | eurz : Europe | medz : Mediterranean | weurz : Western Europe</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SAGE000020160123ec1o00026</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SMHH000020160122ec1n0007n" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Spectrum - Culture</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>The lost art of leisure</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ANDREW STEPHENS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1187 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 January 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PHOTOGRAPHY</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australians captured at play on idyllic Bondi Beach prompt questions about modern life. BY ANDREW STEPHENS.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I t's been a decade since the Cronulla riots, but still those images of aggressive flag-waving and violence confront us, partly because it all happened on such revered ground: the beach. It's a place, after all, with immense meaning and symbolism for Australians, a site we usually associate with relaxation and an egalitarian spirit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Europeans made first landing and first contact on a beach, with Captain Cook disembarking on the shores of Botany Bay. Since then the beach has seen successive waves of migrants make their arrival by sea on convict ships, passenger liners and leaky <b>refugee</b> vessels.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is the place, too, where much local film, television and fiction has been set, most poignantly when Nevil Shute annihilated us all in his apocalypse novel, On the Beach.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Little wonder, then, that it is such a complex place, one that has for decades been awash with bold archetypes: the lifesaver, the sunkissed belle and the beach bum, the surfer and the sunbather, not to forget characters in the likes of Puberty Blues, SeaChange or Home and Away. It is there, with the bronzed Aussie at leisure amid sun, sand and surf, that we seem to still collectively imagine ourselves and our culture.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Or do we?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australians' leisure time has become far more varied, fraught and complex in recent times, and the simple symbolism of the beachside legend - as epitomised by Max Dupain's iconic photograph Sunbaker (1937) - might now seem something of a relic, especially after Cronulla. Were Dupain's Sunbaker re-shot today, he might be staring at a mobile phone. And probably on a couch, not the beach.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australians love their leisure, or at least the idea of it. We once imagined a future in which we would have increasing amounts of it to indulge ourselves in activities we like to think are national pastimes; swimming, playing sports and enjoying the big outdoors.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the other hand, we regularly hear alarming reports about how we are becoming more time-poor and sedentary - teens sitting on their skinny-jeaned behinds gazing blankly at multiple screens; herds of fat families thickshaking their way to national obesity crises in shopping malls, and harried office workers hardly lifting a finger other than to tap frenziedly at their keyboards late into the night.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Bureau of Statistics, to corroborate, reported in 2013 that Australians spend one entire month a year watching telly. Put that alongside another shocking figure - suggesting that only 8 per cent of Australian adults swim in any one year - and the Speedo-clad Adonis and Aphrodite of our imaginations quickly drown.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Where is the truth in all these cliches and extremes about how we spend our time? Has leisure been subsumed by all our other activities to the point that we can't distinguish downtime from overtime? And where did those national myths of bronzed sportiness originate anyway?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When work by photographer George Caddy came to light a few years ago, the images he took seemed to confirm - and bolster - the national mythology about beachside leisure.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Caddy beautifully captured our finest, toned specimens in a variety of situations. There they are, for example, cavorting on the sand in a sport called "beachobatics", popular at Bondi during the years that Caddy was active (between 1936-41).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Those and others of his sumptuous photos - lifesavers, stylish beauties, frolicking kids, and images with titles such as Bondi Babes and Surf Goddess - were brought to the <span class="companylink">State Library of NSW</span>'s photography curator, Alan Davies, for assessment in 2007. There were nearly 300 in a cardboard box that had been carefully stored by Caddy's son Paul.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Caddy junior had found the box while clearing out his late father's Maroubra flat in 1983, but had not immediately appreciated how precious the photographs were - he stored them and forgot about them for about 20 years, then decided to see if they were of artistic value. He contacted Davies and they have now entered the upper realms of 20th-century Australian photography.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We might feel nostalgic for a time when we could imagine ourselves on Caddy's beaches, deliciously at leisure.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tony Veal, adjunct professor in the business school at <span class="companylink">Sydney's University of Technology</span>, has long been examining the complexities of Australian leisure time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Co-author of the seminal academic text, Australian Leisure, now in its fourth edition, Veal has helped chart the changes in Australian leisure activities across the past two centuries, from all the drinking, whoring and gambling that went on in the early settlements to the diverse range of pursuits we now enjoy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet leisure, he says, is not just an activity: it is also an attitude. Gardening or golf, for example, may be seen as leisure in one context or as work in another, depending on the attitude of the participant. Likewise, surfing the internet, engaging with social media, or having a cuppa with a colleague are not easily categorised as either work or leisure.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"But the one thing people always say is that they would participate in more leisure activities if they had more time," Veal says. This, though, is nothing new, for it is the excuse people have always given for not doing more to relax.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We can take solace - and inspiration - in the work of Tom Roberts, now enjoying a blockbuster-sized re-appreciation at the <span class="companylink">National Gallery of Australia</span> in Canberra. Curator Anna Gray, who felt it was time to take a fresh look at his work, says he was a master of portraying Australians at leisure. One of her favourite paintings is the famous Slumbering Sea, Mentone from 1887.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There we see - or perhaps feel - a snoozy air of relaxation, its figures fiddling about with a <b>boat</b> and simply sitting and watching. Likewise Roberts gave us The Sunny South with its naked boys mucking about near the water, and various paintings of Sirius Cove, Coogee and Mosman Bay, where there is no confusion about the slow delights of leisure time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That enticing atmosphere is there, too, in another of the wonderful Caddy photographs from the 1940s. It shows Valmae Maher, a celebrated North Bondi beauty who was regularly featured in magazines of the day as a pin-up girl.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She posed saucily for Caddy, lying in the sand and wearing an extraordinary outfit that was described as a "swoon suit" thanks to its revealing lace-up panels.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As we check our phones for the latest status update or work-related email, we might pause and imagine ourselves as Maher (but perhaps not in the swoon suit): relaxed, deviceless, happy and running her toes through the hot sand. For she is doing something that many of us consciously or unconsciously desire: precisely nothing. How glorious to be at leisure.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tom Roberts is at the <span class="companylink">National Gallery of Australia</span> until March 28, nga.gov.au. George Caddy's prints are available at The Sydney Morning Herald shop, smhshop.com.au/caddy.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Holiday water safety alert</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>JOSEPHINE LIM   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>457 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 January 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>29</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THREE people have already drowned on public holidays in South Australia this summer and the rate of such tragedies is up nationwide, prompting warnings from lifesavers ahead of the Australia Day break next week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nationally, 59 people have drowned since the start of December, which is eight more than the during the same period last year and, by comparison, more than half the number of people who were killed in road crashes during the same period.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The victims have included <b>refugee</b> children Frank Ndikuriyo and Thierry Niyomwungere, both 11, who died at Glenelg on New Year’s Day, and Glenn Bollen, 40, who disappeared on Boxing Day after a <b>boat</b> capsize while he was crayfishing off Beachport in the South East.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a fourth drowning in SA, the body of a Parafield Gardens woman, 42, was found near rocks by a passer-by at the Glenelg breakwater. Surf Life Saving South Australia strategy manager Shane Daw said these deaths were considered coastal deaths while coroner’s reports were being prepared into the exact cause of death.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The national figures also reveal that four times as many males as females were drowning victims and that 14 children under the age of 10, and 37 children under the age of five, nearly drowned in backyard swimming pools.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the wake of the tragic Glenelg drownings of the two schoolboys early this month, Surf Life Saving SA urged the state’s schools to conduct more ocean safety lessons.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Chief executive officer Clare Harris said instructors taught about 5500 students from 50 schools each year about assessing the surf and avoiding its dangers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Students were taught to swim at patrolled beaches, to bathe between the flags, and how to identify deadly rips.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I’d love to work with more schools in the delivery of that program, but ultimately it’s up to schools to choose the beach or the pool,” Ms Harris said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, she added that “getting out of a pool is a lot easier than getting out of a rip”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nationally, more drownings occur in inland waterways such as rivers and lakes than at beaches or in the ocean.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">Royal Life Saving Society Australia</span> chief executive Justin Scarr said 10 of the drowning deaths across the nation occurred on public holidays while one in three deaths happened during recreational activities. “We traditionally see a spike in drowning across the warmer months and the holiday period,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Tragically, there have been 10 drowning deaths on the public holidays to date and we don’t want to see any further drowning deaths this summer.“We urge everyone celebrating this Australia Day to take care, avoid unnecessary risks and be safe around the water.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Indefinite detention is a High Court creation</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>LOUIS A. COUTTS - Louis A. Coutts is an honorary life member of the International Commission of Jurists (Victoria) and author of the soon-to-be-published paper A review of Australian anti-terrorist legislation and the rule of law.  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>760 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20 January 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The court should reverse its decision that allows genuine <b>asylum</b> seekers to be imprisoned.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the disaster of the detention of <b>asylum</b> seekers, the real cause of the problem is completely overlooked and can be traced to Australia's High Court. The extent to which the Australian Parliament can pass laws that abridge fundamental freedoms is related to the licence extended to it by the High Court, which is the ultimate adjudicator of whether or not laws passed by the Federal Parliament are beyond the power conferred upon it by the constitution.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By virtue of laws of the Commonwealth Parliament, which have been upheld as valid by the High Court, all detainees in <b>refugee</b> detention centres are illegally in Australia and yet they have not seen the inside of any court. Until they reach Australian territorial waters, they are not in breach of any Australian law.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When they do enter Australian territorial waters as genuine <b>asylum</b> seekers (as most people in detention are), they have a perfect entitlement according to international law to enter a country in which they seek <b>asylum</b>. The consequence of their "illegality" according to Australian law is indefinite detention, which is a euphemism for what we understand as "deprivation of liberty" or, in other words "imprisonment".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The High Court has determined that imprisonment can only be imposed by a properly constituted court. How is it then that these people can be in the closest and most oppressive detention when they have not had access to a court?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The answer is that the High Court, in a celebrated case involving a <b>refugee</b> named Ahmed al-Kateb (al-Kateb v Godwin), decided that detention requiring a determination of a court only applied when the detention is "punitive". In other words, for the imprisonment to require the decision of a court, it had to amount to punishment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The court decided in the al-Kateb case that the detention was "administrative" and therefore could be imposed by the legislature and implemented by the Executive without a court determination. The result of this is that the High Court has licensed the Australian Parliament to pass laws empowering the executive branch of government to indefinitely imprison (let us scrap the euphemism of "detention") people genuinely seeking <b>asylum</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Parliament and the Immigration Department have now taken advantage of this decision to embark upon a policy of inordinately delaying the processing of applications for <b>asylum</b>, resulting in the harshest of detention regimes. This combination of delay and harsh detention is intended to send a message to would-be <b>asylum</b> seekers that if they come to Australia they will be "punished" by indefinite and indecent incarceration.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A dissenting member of the High Court in the al-Kateb case found the detention in that case irreconcilable with previous decisions of the High Court, but it was reaffirmed in a later case by "Heydon J", as he was then - former justice Dyson Heydon.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was fixated on the "illegality" of al-Kateb's entry into Australia - an entry that was supported by international treaty to which Australia is a signatory. However, once again, the High Court has licensed the Australian Parliament to ignore its and Australia's obligation under international treaty by deciding that unless treaty obligations are specifically adopted in legislation, they have no effect on Australian law.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some years ago a <b>boat</b> carrying <b>asylum</b> seekers was detained in international waters by Australian authorities. These <b>asylum</b> seekers were not in breach of Australian law and had the protection of international law. It is reported that it took a few minutes of phone calls for Australian authorities to process applications for <b>asylum</b> and found that none of the people qualified for <b>asylum</b> and were sent back.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In this context, the claim of the Immigration Department that the processing of applications for <b>asylum</b> is a prolonged and lengthy business lacks some credibility, but does tend to lend support to the view that detention of <b>asylum</b> seekers is punitive.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hopefully, sooner rather than later the High Court will understand the awful consequences of a questionable decision and withdraw the licence it has extended to the federal Parliament and the bureaucracy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At that point, the Australian government will be forced to reconsider its policy of indefinite detention.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Resettlement is the way out of detention mess</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ROBERT MANNE - Robert Manne is Emeritus Professor of Politics and Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at La Trobe University.  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>903 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19 January 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia's clash of ideologies is destroying the lives of the people being held offshore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Saturday, in the report on the frequent occurrence of dreadful acts of self-harm among the <b>asylum</b> seekers marooned on Australia's two offshore processing centres, <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> documented what has long been obvious to common sense.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 1500 or so fellow human beings we have sent to Nauru or Manus Island, most for two years or more, are in the grip of an almost unimaginable despair.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As in my opinion and experience, most Australians would not inflict grievous suffering on innocent human beings for no reason, what needs to be explained is why as a people we are willing, in full knowledge of the facts, to refuse to settle these people in Australia and to tolerate their destruction in body and in spirit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The principal answer is surprisingly straightforward. Between 2009 and 2013, 50,000 <b>asylum</b> seekers arrived on Australian shores by <b>boat</b>. On their way to Australia another thousand drowned. Officials in Canberra, both major political parties and the overwhelming majority of the Australian people, believe the sacrifice of those now on Nauru and Manus Island is justified in order to prevent a return of the boats. What is so terrible is that the logic underlying this argument is so easily shown to be false.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under the Howard government between 2001 and 2007 two policies - offshore processing and tow-back where feasible to Indonesia - effectively stopped the boats. Eventually, however, most of those sent to Nauru or Manus Island were gradually and quietly settled, some in New Zealand, most in Australia. No one argued that with resettlement the boats would return.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This was correct. Before 2007 virtually no <b>asylum</b> seeker boats set out for Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In July 2013, during his brief second prime ministership, Kevin Rudd introduced a new deterrent policy. Not only would all <b>asylum</b> seekers who reached Australia by <b>boat</b> now be sent to the offshore processing camps that had been reopened under Julia Gillard: no one sent to one of these camps would ever be settled in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rudd made this pledge for purely political reasons. As Labor was not yet ready to embrace the Coalition's turnback policy, he thought he needed some measure that would blunt the edge of Tony Abbott's attack on Labor for its <b>asylum</b> seeker policy failure.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rudd's additional deterrent measure did not help Labor's cause. It did, however, mean that when the new government came to power, Abbott predictably and painlessly added Rudd's initiative - no settlement, ever, in Australia of <b>asylum</b> seekers sent to Nauru or Manus Island - to the two successful deterrent measures introduced by Howard: offshore processing and turnback.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is the bipartisan embrace of the Rudd initiative that is responsible for the plight of the people on Nauru and Manus Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the experience of the Howard government should have shown, the element Rudd added to Australia's <b>asylum</b> seeker deterrent policy was entirely unnecessary. People smugglers need a product to sell.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under Howard the threat of turnback and, if that failed, transfer to an offshore processing camp, killed the market stone dead. It would almost certainly do so again. Who, after all, would be willing to spend several thousand dollars when the overwhelming most likely prospect is interception by the Australian navy and return to point of departure or, in the unlikely event of naval failure or political difficulty, a prolonged period of detention in an offshore processing camp?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The current cruelty being inflicted on the <b>asylum</b> seekers languishing on Nauru and Manus Island will not be overcome while the two mindsets that at present dominate the national discussion of <b>asylum</b> seekers persist.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Supporters of <b>asylum</b> seekers hope that with inspirational political leadership, or a national moral awakening, Australia will abandon the policies of offshore processing and turnback, and that somehow an alternative policy will be discovered that will prevent <b>asylum</b> seeker boats setting out for Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Supporters of current policy are convinced that if Canberra blinks and the slightest softening of the three-pronged border protection policy occurs, the people smugglers will be back in business.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both these mindsets are mistaken. It is clear that for the foreseeable future no Australian government will return to the kind of policies that saw the arrival of 50,000 <b>asylum</b> seekers during the Rudd and Gillard years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Equally, the belief that the <b>asylum</b> seeker boats will return if Canberra softens any element of present policy flies in the face both of historical evidence and of reason.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But while these mindsets dominate our <b>asylum</b> seeker debate, the lives of the refugees on Nauru and Manus Island will continue to be slowly destroyed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To save the 1500, compromise between the supporters of the <b>asylum</b> seekers and the supporters of current policy is desperately needed. In practical terms, this will involve both gradual resettlement in Australia of those now on Nauru and Manus Island, and the retention of turnback and the mothballing rather than the closing of the offshore processing centres.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In ideological terms it will involve something even more difficult to imagine: a rhetorical truce between the entrenched camps of Australia's bitter, 15-year-old <b>asylum</b> seeker culture war.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>A decade on, freedom struggle continues</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DEBORAH CASSRELS, EXCLUSIVE   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>585 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18 January 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under cover of darkness, 43 West Papuan <b>asylum</b>-seekers clambered aboard a dugout canoe at midnight. The cue to flee Indon­esian persecution in the province of West Papua in January 2006 was urgent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They had been subjected to brutal repression at the hands of the Indonesian regime.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Reports of government-sanctioned murders, political assassinations, imprisonment and torture were common.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yesterday, many refugees marked the anniversary of their life-changing escape with a canoe and kayak re-enactment on Melbourne’s Yarra River.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mostly strangers in 2006, the tight-knit “family’’ — some of whom have married within their community, had children, separ­ated and achieved university degree­s since their odyssey — has nurtured an undying desire for self-determination.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Seven of the group tell The Australian in Melbourne of their journeys and the perilous four-day crossing that nearly cost them their lives and provoked a diplomatic crisis between Jakarta and Canberra. Lost in stormy seas, they exhausted food and water supplies, despairing as they prayed for deliverance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On January 17, to their resound­ing relief, they spotted land but worried that they had inadvertent­ly strayed back to Indon­esian territory.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We would have been killed,’’ says Adolf Moro, 32, father of a six-year-old son born in Australia, owner of a small business and an engineering and business student at RMIT.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As it transpired, they were drifting off Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula, oblivious to the fact that their arrival presaged a rift with Indonesia over concern that Australia was tacitly supporting Papuan independence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jakarta warned that bilateral co-operation to stop people-smuggling operations and counter­-terrorism were under apprais­al. Amid accusations of appeasement, then prime minister John Howard agreed to change immigration procedures to ensure future <b>boat</b> arrivals would be processed offshore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While trying to guess their locati­on, the 43 noticed telltale crocodile warnings and signs depicti­ng Australia’s unofficial emblems: emus and kangaroos.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was a moment of sublime joy. ‘‘We were in Australia! We were so excited,’’ says Marike Tebay, 28, from Papua’s central highlands. Huddled beneath a tree on the beach, Tebay was so ravenous she ate the ants crawling beside her. The eerie calm was short-lived: media soon hovered in helicopters, the navy and <span class="companylink">Australian Federal Police</span> arrived. ‘They pointed a gun at us. I was petrified,’’ she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For three months they were on Christmas Island as Australian Immigration officials deemed their claims genuine, granting them temporary protection visas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now most — two returned to West Papua — call Australia home but would prefer to live in their homeland, if it gains independence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A low-level separatist insurgency has been waged in the former­ Dutch colony since Indon­esia took control of the province in 1963.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">West Papuan deaths resulting from Indonesian military and police violence are disputed, says Indonesian Human Rights Watch researcher Andreas Har­sono, but estimates vary at between­ 100,00 and 500,00.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Carrying Australian citizenship and permanent protection visas, the Papuans are scattered across the country, with a large nucleus in Melbourne. Some have never returned to West Papua; others have sporadically, and those who do complain of being followed and intimidated.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet it’s still home. “I’m living in exile. We’re still struggling for West Papua’s freedom,” says Moro.Echoing an overarching sentiment of the group, he aims to impar­t the skills learned in Australia and democratise the remote far-eastern island.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa
from Rote Island   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>500 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18 January 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A007</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jail terms, hefty fines for captain, crew of people-smuggling <b>boat</b></p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa from Rote Island</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The captain of an <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> who said he was paid thousands of dollars by an Australian official to return to Indonesia has been sentenced to five years and eight months' jail on people smuggling charges. The panel of judges also ordered Yohanis Humiang, 35, to pay 700 million rupiah ($70,000) or serve an additional five months in prison. The remaining five crew members were sentenced to five years and six months' jail and a fine of 500million rupiah or an extra three months' prison. The scandal caused a diplomatic incident between Indonesia and Australia last year and led to a Senate inquiry and calls for a royal commission to investigate the matter. In June, it was revealed that an Indonesian police investigation had found the crew of the <b>boat</b>, which was intercepted by the Australian Navy, had been paid $US32,000 to</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">return 65 <b>asylum</b> seekers to Indonesia. "Since they received money from Australian customs, then it's proven that they [the captain and crew] made a profit from another party," presiding judge Ari Wahyu Irawan said on Thursday. The revelations were never denied by former prime minister Tony Abbott, who said the Australian government stopped the boats "by hook or by crook". He also said border protection agencies were "incredibly creative in coming up with a whole range of strategies to break this evil trade". Judge Irawan said the crew members felt remorse for people smuggling and had families who were dependent on them. However, he said their act encouraged others to come to Indonesia and the people-smuggling trade to prosper in the country, which had a very wide border. Mr Humiang said in November that he and the other crew members had made a mistake but were the</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">victims of people-smuggling agents. The agents had told them they would not be paid until they took the <b>asylum</b> seekers, who were mostly from Sri Lanka, to New Zealand. The crew members were just earning a living to support family, he said. Indonesian police were highly critical of the Australian Navy for sending the <b>asylum</b> seekers back to Indonesia on two boats, with just one drum of fuel each, with one saying it was akin to being on a "suicide mission". One of the turned back-boats ran out of fuel, and the <b>asylum</b> seekers were forced to transfer to the second <b>boat</b> in the middle of the ocean. The second <b>boat</b> then hit a reef near Landu Island in West Rote and the <b>asylum</b> seekers were rescued by local villagers. An <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span> report last year called for a royal commission into the people-smuggling payments.The Senate inquiry is due to report in March. The <b>asylum</b> seekers remain in limbo in Indonesia.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Buy today's government - with added enzymes</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>694 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11 January 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two billion dollars - it's a lot of money. Even spread over a decade, it's $200 million a year. That would buy you almost an Anzac Bridge each year, or perhaps half a kilometre of urban motorway, or hundreds of kilometres of bike paths, a good chunk of a hospital, and heaven knows how many schools or police stations. This particular $2 billion however, is not spent on any of those worthy things. It is the amount Canberra spends on advertising.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At this point, we should probably pause to let the howls of outrage die down. That is the reaction Labor is hoping for in criticising the Turnbull government's $28 million campaign to sell its innovation policies. But should Australians be outraged at that campaign - or more generally at the large amounts that governments spend on advertising?</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Governments need to advertise. Quite apart from obvious things such as jobs and tenders that the public has to know about, governments may also campaign quite legitimately, using advertising based on market research, against, say, domestic violence or drink driving.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Herald has an obvious interest here. Like all other commercial media, this newspaper benefits when a government spends money to get a message across. Others will judge as they see fit, but we do not believe that that interest undermines the fundamental point: the public needs to know what its government is doing on a wide range of issues, and governments are justified in spending taxpayers' money to keep it informed, or to urge it to behave within the law.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Advertising for the innovation strategy is relevant here. Certainly it chimes in with the new Turnbull administration's desire to paint itself as forward-looking, in contrast to its predecessor. But the package is far more than spin. If it is to work, the public - investors, entrepreneurs, businesses - has to know what the programs offer, and under what conditions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As we have reported, Labor's Kim Carr concedes that governments have to advertise, but argues that too much money has been spent on market research, "opinion-poll research" in his words, which he says is using public money to do the Coalition's research for it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senator Carr distinguishes between legitimate and illegitimate advertising campaigns, implying the present government is doing far more of the latter than Labor - which when in government spent more on advertising than the Coalition - ever did. Like a lot of the debate here, this depends on the circumstances of each case. The present government can also argue, rightly, that communications strategies in 2016 are devised in an unpredictable media landscape which the rise of social media is transforming rapidly. To spend millions on a campaign without researching what the intended audience knows, and how it finds things out, would be simply foolhardy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That is not to say that all government spending on advertising and image management is always, without exception, well spent. Sometimes governments just decide to skite. The $18 million spent telling us about infrastructure spending looks like political advertising plain and simple. Even when a hint of a pretext exists for a campaign, failure follows predictable paths. A government can use taxpayers' money not to inform the public but to push a party line - to persuade a doubting electorate that a policy is worthwhile.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Howard government's Work Choices campaign is a well-known example. Labor's campaign to warn off would-be <b>boat</b> people (but really to convince Australians Labor was tough on <b>asylum</b> seekers) is another. A strategy, though carefully planned, can backfire. Dr Karl Kruszelnicki famously torpedoed the Abbott government's fatuous attempt to spin the latest Intergenerational Report, objecting strenuously to the government's campaign that he had been paid to star in.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These examples demonstrate the caveat hanging over all government campaigns: they work best when they are designed to inform, not persuade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Persuasion is the job of politicians. If our political leaders cannot frame and articulate the arguments to convince us a policy is worth pursuing, no amount of taxpayers' money will do their work for them.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>QUICK VIEWS</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>453 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9 January 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MRCURY</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PC brigade goes too far BARRY Taranto (Letters, January 6), will you let me know when you start your Anti-PC Association? I want to join. I was a little taken aback when told in a cafe in the UK a few years ago: “You don’t ask for white coffee here, you ask for it with milk.” Honestly, I agree, we should avoid racist terminology but the PC brigade goes too far.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jane Hall Rokeby Cutting remark THANK you to Lucie Cutting (Letters, January 6) for making me realise how culturally insensitive I was all those years ago when I fell about laughing at Blazing Saddles.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">John Ellsmore Sandy Bay Land-locked Launceston TAKE pride in our beautiful harbour? Yes, the great blue water classic starting in Sydney Harbour and finishing in Hobart Harbour. A splendid suggestion (Letters, January 4). On a somewhat related matter, could somebody enlighten me regarding the so-called Launceston to Hobart (harbour) yacht race? As I see it, this race has its starting point at least 40km north of virtually landlocked Launceston. Am I missing something? Maybe Mick Leppard can sort this out.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Alan Gray Howrah Taxing question NOTHING is too much trouble for the <span class="companylink">Hobart City Council</span>. A totally untested system for payment at the Taste. No problem. One question though. If the HCC is charging stallholders 10 per cent of gross stallholder revenue as stated in the Acting Lord Mayor’s letter to stallholders, does that gross figure include the GST paid by the customers? Is the HCC now to get a cut out of the tax each customer has to pay?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Michael Loughhead Battery Point Care for the vulnerable MY new year will be happier if our Government stops wasting more billions on further persecuting “<b>boat</b> people” with toxic detention and denying work rights to <b>asylum</b> seekers wanting to work. With the money redirected, I want society’s vulnerable human beings properly cared for, as befits a decent, affluent democracy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ike Naqvi, Tinderbox Whistlers save wildlife WHISTLERS are as cheap as chips from all the auto shops and are very effective. I have been using them on my cars since 2007 and, thankfully, have not hit an animal since that time. I have observed wallabies, kangaroos, possums and rabbits change direction and go back into the safety of the bush. Other animals may stand still by the road and their ears twitch so that you can see that they have heard the whistlers and have stopped out of harm’s way. Trial a whistler on the front grille of your vehicle and slow down. It costs so little to avoid damage to your vehicle and save the wildlife.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill InglisMt Nelson</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>EUROPE IS MISSING THE <b>BOAT</b> ON SENSIBLE IMMIGRATION POLICY</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>John Hirst </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1043 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8 January 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was derided as simplistic, but Tony Abbott’s ‘slogan’ saved us much grief</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The borders are closing all over Europe, but the external border is still open. Poor Europe — it was to be the model of peace and respect for human rights. Europe might have tamed conflict within, but it turns out it still has external enemies: an old-style enemy to the east in Vladimir Putin who believes in force, and new-style invaders from the south who cannot be repulsed because they are human beings with the right to seek <b>asylum</b>. The people-smugglers can be attacked — perhaps, if the <span class="companylink">UN</span> gives permission — but not the migrants. If they turn out not to be refugees, they can be sent back. Wish Europe luck with that.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia is not going to follow the European path. At its conference last year the Labor Party accepted that boats of unauthorised arrivals can be turned back. This is now the policy of the two major parties and of any government formed in the future.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Europe, the new arrivals from the south have heightened opposition to immigration of all sorts. Anti-immigrant parties flourish. Meanwhile in Australia large-scale programs to accept migrants and resettle refugees (who come by air after being assessed in their camps overseas) continue without significant opposition. The only significant opposition in Australia on the migration issue is to unauthorised arrivals by sea. That has now been fixed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The consequences are momentous. Australia will continue to grow in population — unlike western Europe, where the population is stagnant or falling — and this will be achieved, as in the past, without internal disharmony.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The policy to stop the boats has been reached by the usual democratic process. John Howard successfully turned boats around. The Labor Party said this was inhumane and it would deal with refugees decently, and further that Howard had not really been the architect of his success; there were simply fewer people wanting to come.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To sneak into government, opposition leader Kevin Rudd said he would turn back boats. But this was not his party’s policy and when the <b>asylum</b>-seekers on the Oceanic Viking, which had been turned back to Indonesia, refused to leave the <b>boat</b>, Rudd caved in. He promised these people a special deal and then swore he hadn’t given them a special deal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He might have fooled a few Australians; he certainly did not fool the people-smugglers. They knew the gate was open. So it was to be humanity and decency, which led to drownings at sea and a huge increase in arrivals. And the Labor government reached for a deterrent — the inhumanity of offshore detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since this is a democracy the effects of the change of policy were evident to all. The press kept count of the number of arrivals and the TV news showed a <b>boat</b> wrecked on Christmas Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Other government disasters can be spun out of existence — staffers are hired with these skills — but this disaster could not be hidden. The argument that a ­humane policy would not lead to a flood of arrivals collapsed. The nation had conducted an experiment and the results were in.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Tony Abbott, as Liberal opposition leader, promised to stop the boats. He would turn boats around when it was safe to do so. “Stop the boats” was derided by Labor, the Greens, the ABC and the Fairfax press as a simplistic slogan. It would not work. Fearing it would work, they made desperate attempts to argue against it. The Indonesians would object (so they should have a veto over the protection of our borders), the sailors would be traumatised (so they had signed up not to defend the nation but see the world).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The simplicity of Abbott’s promise made it a high-risk policy for him. Failure could not be hidden. If the boats kept coming he would be finished. Commentators who bemoan the state of our politics decry the lack of political leadership. This was leadership of a high order. The boats were stopped. Immigration of all sorts would be controlled by the government, which is the sine qua non of this immigrant nation living peacefully with itself.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is no question the great majority of Australian people are opposed to unauthorised arrivals by sea. The human rights lawyers have tried very hard to undermine that determination by making themselves and the courts arbiters of immigration policy. It has been a close-run thing. They have had their victories, but the immigration exclusion zone and offshore processing have survived court challenges.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The lawyers would love to run cases on turning back boats. The government keeps details of these operations secret. The rationale it offers is about outwitting the people-smugglers. I suspect the undeclared rationale is to outwit the lawyers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Why the human rights lawyers give priority to <b>asylum</b>-seekers who can pay people-smugglers over those we choose ourselves and bring here at our expense is beyond me. If they want to see what success for their tactics would look like, let them look to Europe. There human rights of unauthorised arrivals are upheld and opposition to immigrants grows.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Europe is paralysed in the face of the immigrant invasion. The boats keep coming. The camp of people at Calais wanting to reach Britain is not disturbed. Social tension in Germany, which accepted most of the immigrants, is rising. Compared to that outcome, our politics has given us a good result.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We are a nation-state able to act to protect our own; girt by sea is still a blessing; human rights have not been so well entrenched that the sovereign power to determine who composes the nation has been lost. The people have had their victory. It is of no great consequence that they did not like the prime minister who delivered it for them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Abbott was removed, Malcolm Turnbull promised an end to slogans — and gave us “agile nation” and “a government for the 21st century”. “Stop the boats” was packed with much more meaning and, unlike most policy slogans, was incontrovertibly realised.John Hirst recently edited Doug Morrissey’s Ned Kelly: A Lawless Life.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>DON’T ROCK THE <b>BOAT</b></span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DANIEL MEERS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1030 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8 January 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Tony Abbott reshuffled his cabinet in December 2014, the news spread throughout the people smuggling network within minutes. The king had been moved from the throne.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Abbott had handed the smugglers a Christmas present they never thought possible.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The smugglers, who follow Australian politics like a senior ministerial staffer, sprang their network of troops into action.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Scott Morrison, the man who stopped the boats, was no longer immigration minister.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He had been replaced by Peter Dutton. A man they knew was from the conservative side of the conservative party. A man they knew had a QC after his name — Queensland cop.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Most importantly, they knew Dutton had the same hard-line views as Morrison. It didn’t stop them, though.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The smugglers sensed an opportunity. Getting people on leaky old boats bound for Australia was no longer an attractive option because even the most uneducated <b>asylum</b> seeker knew they would be turned back.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Labor years, when more than 50,000 people arrived illegally on 800 boats, had opened a window. Morrison closed it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Following the reshuffle, Dutton was used as a marketing tool throughout Asia. The smugglers sold it hard; the new immigration minister was a former health minister who helped people get better, they told the desperate. It wasn’t reported at the time, but the sales pitch worked.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Smugglers managed to fill a few boats and immediately sent them south to Australia during Dutton’s early days as minister.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was a test. A test Dutton passed and the smugglers failed. The desperate <b>asylum</b> seekers quickly worked out they had been had. Just as occurred during the Morrison era, the government turned the boats around. The immediate voyage attempts and associated chatter taught Morrison and Abbott something — changing an immigration minister should not be taken lightly.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Any perceived change to border protection will be used as an opportunity to attract customers to fill boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s why Morrison advised Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull not to axe Dutton, who had offered his resignation via text message, after the leadership spill. A core foundation of any ­Coalition government is border security and a hardline approach to illegal immigrants.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The people smugglers are smart. They know politics as well as Australian politicians. They know who is left, who is right, who leans closer to the left in the right party and who leans far right in the right party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia’s border policy is no different under Turnbull than it was under Abbott. But it is well known in the smuggling network that Turnbull is a moderate. Had a moderate PM appointed a moderate minister there may well have been more than a few vessels that were sent Dutton’s way. If the smugglers could fill enough boats, eventually one would get through — and one brings two.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Boat</b> arrivals under Turnbull would be catastrophic to his credentials within the already nervous conservative base.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The issue of the immigration minister has been raised this week after Dutton labelled Sunday Telegraph political editor Samantha Maiden a “mad f.....g witch” in a text message he sent to her instead of Jamie Briggs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Maiden and Dutton have known each other for 15 years. She took no offence. It’s fair to say Dutton may have been lucky sending the text to Maiden rather than someone else.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dutton is guilty of stupidity, but there was nothing misogynistic about the message. It was a politician being annoyed with a yarn a journo wrote. It happens every day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Maiden said as much. “I would be lying if I was trying to manufacture outrage ... I’m not offended by it,’’ she said. “I think that Mr Dutton is a good minister; he’s a hard worker, he’s made a strong contribution to the government.” Maiden’s view was backed by respected Sky News political reporter Laura Jayes, who told viewers while hosting News Day on Monday that those calling for Dutton to resign over the issue were living in fantasy land.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The minister’s worst crime here is that he’s kicked the Jamie Briggs story on another day, which he didn’t intend to do,’’ she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Maiden and Jayes are exactly right. The bigger issue for Dutton is that he needs to lift his game. The text gaffe followed a poorly timed joke about rising sea levels while standing underneath a television boom mike.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The boys club days are over in a Turnbull government and the Abbott crowd needs to be agile enough to move with the times.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That said, Dutton is a fundamentally good minister in the immigration portfolio, and calls for his head are hysterical.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The head-kicking former Queensland cop has the intestinal fortitude to stand strong when the Left make noise about grubby criminals complaining about conditions in detention centres.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dutton has no qualms sending bad rubbish back where it came from. He banned American star Chris Brown from performing in Australia because of a domestic violence conviction. He isn’t worried about being popular, he just wants to keep Australia’s borders secure. Nobody knows the makeup of the 50,000 illegal arrivals under Labor. There’s every chance a few bad eggs made it into the country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Illegal arrivals are a national security risk because you can’t be sure who they are. Those days are over, for now.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government has turned back 23 boats with 685 <b>asylum</b> seekers on board during the two years of Operation Sovereign Borders. Nobody has died at sea. Something Morrison and Dutton can quite rightly hang their hat on.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dutton is often easy kicking fodder for the bleeding hearts, but he is getting the job done in border protection. As the saying goes; “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Attempting improvements in the immigration area come with high risk. The people smugglers don’t miss a beat and they certainly wouldn’t miss Dutton being moved on.The immigration portfolio is a ­Coalition strength, thanks to the heavy lifting of Morrison and the continuing work of Dutton. There’s no need to tamper with a good recipe.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Patrol <b>boat</b> repairs blow out by $45m</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CAMERON STEWART, EXCLUSIVE   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>739 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 January 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The repair bill for the navy’s troubled patrol boats could blow out by up to $45 million as the damage to the overworked fleet becomes apparent from the ­<b>asylum</b>-seeker crisis of the Rudd-Gillard era.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian understands that the start of a major refit for the 13 Armidale-class patrol boats has uncovered more damage than was expected, doubling the cost of repairing the first two boats and raising doubts over their durability.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The navy’s patrol <b>boat</b> fleet has suffered from a perfect storm of design faults, poor maintenance and the mission to intercept more than 50,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers between 2008 and 2013, often in rough seas for which the boats were not designed. This has left the fleet in poor condition, with the government this year fast-tracking a replacement fleet of offshore patrol vessels, to be known as Corvettes, with construction to begin in 2018.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To keep the Armidale fleet afloat until the OPVs are ready in the early 2020s, the patrol boats are undergoing a progressive mid-life refit in Singapore rather than in Cairns or Darwin, where the navy has been disappointed in the quality and speed of repairs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is understood that the costs of refitting the first two patrol boats, HMAS Larrakia and HMAS Albany, has been more than $7m a <b>boat</b>, double the expected cost of $3.5m a <b>boat</b>. If that cost blowout is repeated across the 13-<b>boat</b> fleet, the refit budget will blow out by more than $45m. The navy lost one of its patrol boats, HMAS Bundaberg, to fire as it was undergoing a refit in Darwin last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To supplement the remaining Armidales while two boats are progressively in refit, the Australian Border Force has temporarily transferred two Cape-class offshore patrol vessels to the navy to enable it to meet its border security obligations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Cape Byron was handed to the navy on July 24 and the Cape Nelson on October 1. Shipbuilder Austal has won a $63m contract to build two Cape-class patrol boats for Defence to be delivered mid-next year and chartered to Defence for at least three years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Defence has been unhappy with the quality of the maintenance program given to the Armidale fleet in the past and has agreed with in-service support contractor Serco to end the contract earlier than planned, next year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Over a number of years, the sustainment of Armidale-class patrol boats has not allowed the fleet to meet the required levels of availability for this important capability,” a Defence spokesman said. “Therefore it has been mutually agreed that the contract will end in 2017.” Defence will tender for a new in-service support contractor next year. The Armidale-class fleet was built in Western Australia between 2004 and 2007 under order to civilian rather than military specifications, meaning they were ill-suited to operate regularly in high seas. This meant the aluminium alloy-hulled vessels were poorly equipped for the mission of intercepting and sometimes ­rescuing hundreds of <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats in rough weather as they made passage from Indonesia or Sri Lanka to Christmas Island between 2008 and 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In March last year, a re-emergence of structural cracks in the boats caused almost half the fleet to be confined to port. This caused the navy to lose patience with the fleet and it asked the government to fast-track the construction of steel-hulled, rather than aluminium alloy-hulled boats, to make them more resistant to rough seas and poor weather. Although there have been turn-backs of <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats since 2013, the lull in boats seeking to make the crossing has allowed the navy to develop deep maintenance and refit programs to keep the Armidale-class fleet afloat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The mid-life refit program began in October and has uncovered the extent of corrosion and cracks caused by the wear during the years when the boats were at sea for long periods.“The Armidale-class patrol <b>boat</b> fleet has commenced a mid-life refit which will include a hull-strengthening program along with a range of engineering changes designed to refresh some key ships’ systems and improve overall platform reliability,” a Defence spokesman said. “The program will also include a range of lower level engineering changes designed to improve overall long-term reliability of the platforms.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Smugglers’ trade fails to rise after Turnbull coup</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CAMERON STEWART, EXCLUSIVE   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>759 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 January 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The push by people-smugglers to revive their trade under Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership has failed, with only three unsuccessful ­attempts by <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats to reach Australia launched since he became Prime Minister.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian can reveal that the failure of these voyages, including the turn-back of an ­<b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> in November, has resulted in smuggling syndicates being unable to find new passengers, all but ending their plan to rekindle business after the removal of Tony Abbott.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While “chatter” in people-smuggling networks has been constant since Mr Turnbull became leader in mid-September, passengers now appear to be convinced that <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy has not changed under the new leader.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">People-smugglers in Indo­nesia had tried to capitalise on the leadership change, telling ­<b>asylum</b>-seekers Mr Turnbull would be less hardline than Mr Abbott and that those who took a <b>boat</b> to Australia would eventually be allowed to live there.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Intelligence sources say ­people-smugglers are struggling to find new passengers after a small Indonesia-flagged wooden <b>boat</b> carrying 17 people was turned back to Indonesia after ­arriving undetected at Christmas Island last month.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Reports of that turn-back plus the onset of the monsoon season, which makes the voyage to Australia significantly more dangerous, have cruelled people-smugglers’ hopes of a revival in the trade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian understands that there have been two other failed voyages. The first was on September 21, only a week after Mr Turnbull became Prime Minister, when an unseaworthy <b>boat</b> carrying 18 men from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan as well as three crew was forced to return to shore after it took on water. The <b>boat</b> was abandoned on a beach in Cianjur in west Java where the Indonesian crew was arrested.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The other failed voyage, not previously reported, was in Nov­ember when an <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> was subjected to a turn-back by Australian authorities not long after it left Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government has declined to reveal details of these incidents or comment on them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> that reached Christmas Island last month was the first to make Australian territory in almost two years. The small <b>boat</b>, which was not detected by the land-based maritime radar on the island, came within 100m of shore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Carrying 17 people, including one crew member, the <b>boat</b> was escorted back towards Indonesia by navy patrol <b>boat</b> HMAS Maryborough, arriving in Kupang on Timor a week later.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As soon as Mr Turnbull became Prime Minister, people-smugglers serving jail sentences in Indonesia reportedly tried to revive their trade, prompting Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to issue categorical statements that there would be no change to <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy under the new leader.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last month’s <b>boat</b> turn-back did not spark renewed political tensions with Indonesia, which had been critical of Australia’s turn-back policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A meeting of Australian and Indonesia foreign and defence ministers in Sydney last week avoided the turn-back issue, saying only there needed to be a regional solution to the problem. Both countries will co-host the next regional meeting of the Bali Process on People Smuggling, Trafficking in Persons and Related Transnational Crime in March.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Between 2008, when the Rudd Labor government softened the Howard government’s Pacific Sol­ution policies and 2013, more than 50,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers reached Christmas Island by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On December 15, 2010, a <b>boat</b> carrying about 90 <b>asylum</b>-seekers, mostly from Iraq and Iran, sank after hitting rocks on the shore of Christmas Island, killing 48 people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In July 2013, the Rudd government announced that <b>asylum</b>-seekers arriving in Australia by <b>boat</b> would no longer be settled in Australia. When elected in late 2013, the Abbott government continued this policy but also ordered the navy to turn back <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats on the water. The move caused a diplomatic rift with Indonesia last year but it stopped the flow of <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats and drownings at sea, which killed about 1200 <b>asylum</b>-seekers between 2008 and 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In just over two years since Operation Sovereign Borders was implemented by the Abbott-Turnbull government, 685 <b>asylum</b>-seekers on 23 boats have been turned-back by navy and Customs boats en route to Christmas Island.There are 926 people on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea and 543 people in Nauru who sailed to Australia after July 2013 and whose futures remain unclear as the government seeks to return them home or to a third country.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>The people who open their hearts</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Ruth Pollard  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2034 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3 January 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sunday Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SAGE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than 1 million refugees arrived in Europe in 2015, and were mostly met with kindness and empathy, writes Ruth Pollard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the rescue <b>boat</b> MY Phoenix docked in the southern Italian port of Taranto, a tanker crawled up and down the dock, spraying water on the baking-hot concrete.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Italian authorities knew many of the 415 refugees disembarking had lost their shoes during their dangerous sea voyage - so their first thought was to protect the feet of these vulnerable people from the burning ground.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yes, there were brief medical checks by health authorities and a small police presence on the dock - you cannot, after all, have hundreds of people landing on your shores without some oversight - but for the most part it was a friendly, civilian affair.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">Italian Red Cross</span> officers handed children coloured balloons as they clung to their parents for the short walk down from the <b>boat</b>'s gangway on to the first land they had touched in more than four days.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Volunteers gave out bottles of water, yoghurt and sandwiches in the shaded areas especially built for the arrivals. The whole process was devoid of obvious weaponry and soldiers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Most of those arriving that day had fled countries imperilled by war and conflict, their day-to-day existence crushed by oppressive governments or terrorised by militia groups and regime air strikes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A contrast</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These acts of simple kindness and the quiet, respectful way these people - from Syria, Libya, Iraq, Ghana, Nigeria, Sudan, Bangladesh and Pakistan - were treated are, many argue, in strong contrast with Australia's approach.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The question of "stopping the boats" has become a narrow-cast focus for a much larger issue that involves the lives of millions of innocent people caught up in some of the most intractable, violent conflicts this world has seen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Italian government faced this when it started its short-lived Mare Nostrum rescue program in the Mediterranean Sea when thousands started fleeing from Syria, Iraq and beyond through Libya towards Europe. In 2014, Mare Nostrum rescued 140,000 people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Italy cancelled the mission because of the high costs of the operation - estimated at €9 million ($13.5 million) a month - and criticism from its European allies about the rescue operation acting as a "pull factor" for desperate people. Hundreds of people died as a result.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And even with the rescues cancelled, those desperate people kept coming. During the first four months of 2015, the number of people dying at sea reached new heights.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By the end of March, 479 refugees had drowned or were missing, and in April, 1308 people drowned or went missing at sea, compared with 42 the year before.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This grim toll led <span class="companylink">European Union</span> leaders to agree to increase their operations, including the participation of naval vessels from several <span class="companylink">EU</span> states in Operation Triton, run by Frontex, the European border agency.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Frontex relies on member</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">states to supply staff and equipment, and it often falls short on both fronts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thousands rescued</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even so, tens of thousands of refugees have been rescued this year by Operation Triton and the combined efforts of private organisations and NGOs such as <span class="companylink">Medecins Sans Frontieres</span>, which has had two rescue boats in the Mediterranean, and the Migrant Offshore Aid Station, the Norwegian Society for Search and Rescue and Sea Watch, each of which have one <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the Aegean Sea - the most popular route for Syrians fleeing through Turkey to Greece - the Turkish and Greek coast guards have rescued tens of thousands of people this year alone while other small groups like Proactiva Open Arms, a volunteer group of Spanish lifeguards, have pulled thousands of people from the sea off the coast of the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At least 806,175 people, mostly Syrians and Iraqis, arrived in Greece this year. A further 150,317 arrived in Italy, according to the <span class="companylink">International Organisation for Migration</span>, who announced this week that more than 1 million refugees had arrived in Europe in 2015. It is the highest flow of refugees and migrants since World War II.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many of the Syrian refugees I have met in the past year are now living their first bitter winter in Germany, like the aspiring chef Ali Deeb, whom I first met on a rescue <b>boat</b> off the coast of Libya in late August.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 21-year-old, who left Syria to escape compulsory conscription into the Syrian armed forces and pressure to join the local opposition militia, had made his way to the German city of Hannover along with his childhood friend Ahmed, Ahmed's sister and her husband. They all applied for <b>asylum</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I could not do any of it ... I cannot go into any army because I cannot kill anyone," he says of his decision to flee.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They were sent to a reception centre in Braunschweig, where he stayed for two months.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then, suddenly, he was told he must move. As a single man, Ali was sent to a city in the north, his friend Ahmed and his family were sent to another town in the south.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now he lives in an apartment with 11 other people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It is a very crowded apartment, there are four people in each room, but this is a temporary situation," Ali says, with characteristic optimism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Each month, he makes the six-hour journey south to visit Ahmed, as they wait for their paperwork to make it through the German system, go to language class and worry about the friends and family they left behind in Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For Abu Muaad and his wife Um Muaad, who only arrived in Germany on December 15 after risking the rough winter swell in the Aegean Sea with his brother Abu Jabar, his wife Um Jabar and their cousin Abu Khalil, the world is a much safer but unfamiliar place.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Their passage from the Turkish coastal city of Izmir to the Greek island of Lesbos was thrown into doubt after Turkey signed a $US3.2 billion deal with the <span class="companylink">EU</span> aimed at stemming the flow of refugees, prompting the arrest of hundreds of refugees, including Abu Muaad and his family.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They were released and vowed to try to cross the Aegean again. For days I heard nothing from them - it was unclear whether they had been arrested again trying to leave Turkey or whether they had fallen victim to the sea, as at least 10 people do every day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Finally, on December 7, word came through - they had made it to Greece. Eight days later they were in Berlin and now, Abu Muaad says, they are in a <b>refugee</b> camp awaiting housing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Germany is very nice, but our home [in Syria] is better," he says of his beloved home town of al-Shaddadi, which was all but unrecognisable when <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> took over 18 months ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He and his wife insist they want to return to Syria as soon as it is safe, and plan to use their time in Germany to study and work so they can return home to rebuild their shattered country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Weary of war</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For 35-year-old Rafaa, a Libyan from the besieged city of Benghazi, the decision to leave his home became more urgent as the violence surged around him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They are fighting between each other, people are dying and there are no civilian services in Benghazi," Rafaa says. "The hospital is closed ... the kids didn't go to school because it is not a safe situation in the city.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"My country, Libya, is at war ... my message is, 'I need peace'."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When I tracked down Rafaa, who had been rescued from the same <b>boat</b> as Ali Deeb off the coast of Libya, he was in a <b>refugee</b> reception centre in the German city of Chemnitz, 280 kilometres south of Berlin.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I just want to live in a safe place and have peace in my country," he said, as the rain began to fall outside his temporary home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With Europe's land borders sealed, people are forced to pay thousands of dollars to smugglers and risk their lives in leaky, overcrowded boats on the Mediterranean and Aegean seas. Even the rough waters and freezing weather of winter have not stopped the flow.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Everyone involved in these rescue operations acknowledges that, in the long term, rescuing refugees from unseaworthy boats is not the solution to the global humanitarian crisis we are facing. But until a solution is found, they say, it is the only way.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Civilian targets</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The alternative is unthinkable - leaving people trapped in countries where their own government drops hundreds of deadly barrel bombs on civilian marketplaces, schools and hospitals, enslaved by IS, or condemned to a lifetime of conscription in an army run by despots.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Once they flee these intolerable conditions and until European governments have agreed on a safer and more humane way to deal with the mass movement of people, the only alternative is to rescue them at sea and facilitate their crossings at land borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">International aid agencies</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">such as <span class="companylink">Medecins Sans Frontieres</span> as well as the <span class="companylink">International Organisation for Migration</span> as well as the</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">and the <span class="companylink">United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees</span> have worked to fill the gaps left by governments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But these governments have avoided developing any coherent policies to deal with the mass movement of people, allowing some refugees (Syrians and Iraqis) to cross their borders while leaving others to sit out the freezing winter in makeshift camps.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some countries, such as Slovenia, have built fences to keep people out. They have also failed to participate usefully in a solution to the Syrian civil war, one of the main causes of the global <b>refugee</b> crisis the world is facing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Britain and France are now bombing IS positions in Syria while Russia, in an aggressive bid to prop up the unflinchingly violent regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, has already killed hundreds of civilians in its two-month-long campaign of air strikes on mostly opposition-held areas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Far from bringing the war in Syria closer to an end, three new countries conducting air strikes in the already decimated country have forced even more Syrians to flee.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even now we are not at the crux of the <b>refugee</b> crisis, because Europe, despite all the hand-wringing and hype, is not its epicentre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turkey is host to the world's largest number of refugees, with more than 2 million Syrians taking shelter inside its borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Exodus tops 4m</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Syria is the source of the largest number of refugees in the world, with more than 4 million people forced to flee a war that is now in its fifth year, with a death toll of at least 200,000 and rising.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of those, at least 1.6 million are children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Almost one out of every four refugees is Syrian, with 95 per cent living in surrounding countries, the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> says, while Syria also has the largest number of internally displaced people, at 7.6 million.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Lebanon, a tiny country compared with Turkey, and with a deeply dysfunctional government, nearly 1.5 million Syrian refugees now make up a quarter of the population. In Jordan, there are at least 654,000 refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pakistan is hosting 1.51 million refugees, according to the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>, while Iran has 982,000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The enormity of those numbers should put the European <b>refugee</b> crisis in perspective, and it should highlight the hard-heartedness of Australia's decision to take in a modest extra 12,000 Syrian refugees while leaving 827 people to be detained indefinitely in horrific conditions in Nauru and on Manus Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Europe, in stark contrast to their governments' dithering, many Europeans have spent the past few months showing compassion and an enormous practical capacity to welcome those arriving in their countries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From welcome signs written in Arabic at train stations to citizens offering to drive refugees across borders, arriving at reception centres with blankets, warm jackets, teddy bears and beanies, to those assisting with the rescue of people coming by boats, Europeans have responded mostly with kindness and empathy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As Australians would do - if the Government would allow them.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Munjed Al Muderis was a doctor in the Iraq of Saddam Hussein. When he was ordered to cut off the ears of draft dodgers - and saw a senior surgeon shot on the spot for refusing the order - he became a fugitive of conscience.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His secret flight from a regime that would have killed him may verge on the stale for jaded Australians. "He came illegally by <b>boat</b>. Shame!" Yes he did. He is now a world-leading surgeon helping amputees walk again.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Like many Australians, Dr Muderis is against predatory people smuggling, but he's equally critical of the protracted detention of <b>asylum</b> seekers. Upon arrival at the Curtin detention centre, in 1999, when <b>asylum</b> seekers were still processed on the mainland, the number 982 was written in permanent marker on his wrist and shoulder. He believes the centre was "trying to deprive us of everything, including our names".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under current law, Dr Muderis - a pioneer in osseointegration surgery and a hero to many soldiers who have had limbs blown off - would not be allowed to settle in Australia. It would have been a great loss.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dr Muderis is one of three high-achieving <b>boat</b> people who, as early as March, will be appearing on posters at tram and bus stops around Australia, boldly declaring "I Came By <b>Boat</b>".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The campaign, driven by Melbourne makeup artist and <b>refugee</b> from the former Yugoslavia Blanka Dudas, is asking Australia to celebrate the contribution of the very people many have come to reject, politically and emotionally.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I've become so frustrated with the negativity and fear around <b>asylum</b> seekers," she says. "I want to show they are just like us: people who work at jobs, and have families, and ordinary problems like the rest of us. It's got to the point, the way the issue is discussed and exploited by politicians, that we forget they are people at all."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Dudas said she got the idea from a UK campaign called I Am An Immigrant, which last April raised enough money via crowdfunding to put nearly a thousand posters of hard-working immigrants - teachers, builders, doctors - on railway and tube stations around the country. "The UK is dealing with slightly different issues because they have open borders - but the emotions are still the same," she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Anti-immigration sentiments have been fuelled by the open-border policy that comes with <span class="companylink">EU</span> membership - and newspapers that reported on the I Am An Immigrant campaign were flooded with comments along the lines of "don't their own countries need doctors, nurses and teachers?"</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Dudas wonders about the conversations that will occur at the tram stops when commuters are confronted with posters of Dr Muderis, Melbourne dentist Fern White, who as a child came by <b>boat</b> from Vietnam, and Sydney law student and <b>refugee</b> advocate Najeeba Wazedafost, whose Hazara family fled ethnic persecution in Afghanistan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Says Dudas: "I think the government has done a good job to make sure we don't talk about <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"To make them the forgotten people. And so to get a conversation going I think will be quite profound."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The campaign needs to raise $150,000 via a crowdfunding site, chuffed.org/project/i-came-by-<b>boat</b>. Dudas had raised $34,000 as of Friday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Aside from the posters, the campaign is setting up a website for <b>asylum</b> seekers who have made a life in Australia to post their stories and photographs.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten has made a political career out of being a powerbroker and after doing deals with factions and unions over the past six months, he is now vulnerable, writes Dennis Atkins</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BILL Shorten is a deal-maker and a user of political power. At the moment in the inner-northern suburbs of Melbourne, there’s a fierce contest for preselection for a prized Labor seat in the federal <span class="companylink">Parliament</span>.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Wills was where Bob Hawke took his first elective step to become prime minister 35 years ago and the safe Labor seat is vacant after incumbent Kelvin Thomson announced his retirement in the year’s last sittings weeks, two months ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With 1200 local members – one of the biggest of any federal seat in Victoria – there’s a battle royal between Right Wing powerbrokers, with Senator Stephen Conroy on one side and Shorten and his on-again/off-again best mate David Feeney on the other.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Despite colleagues imploring Shorten to keep his nose out of a local preselection – and the Labor leader insisting he’s not getting involved – the man who wants to be Australia’s next prime minister can’t help himself.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s what he does. If there are numbers to be crunched and power to be brokered, Shorten is there with his shirtsleeves rolled up and a deal-maker’s glint in his eye.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s easy to understand how Shorten quickly assumed the nickname “showbags” when he was working his up through the ranks of the Victorian <span class="companylink">Australian Workers’ Union</span> – a sobriquet that referred to his propensity to never arrive at a meeting without something to hand out.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, Labor leaders are supposed to keep their hands clean. Hawke, who has been something of a role model for Shorten, always had people acting on his behalf, whether it was union heavyweights like Bill Landeryou and Wally Curren or party bosses such as Graham Richardson and Robert Ray.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten likes the act of doing the deal as much as he likes getting his desired outcome. At the ALP’s national conference, held in Melbourne’s docklands in late July, Shorten not only had to win the debate on <b>asylum</b> seekers but he had to be seen to do it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His victory was achieved by peeling two big Left Wing unions off from their factional base – the musclebound Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union and the equally feared <span class="companylink">Maritime Union of Australia</span> – who sided with Shorten to endorse the Coalition’s once anathema <b>boat</b>-turnback policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As Shorten grinned, watching the credential passes waving above the heads, some knowing glances were exchanged on the sidelines.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This won’t come cheap,” said one veteran Victorian Labor operative. “You don’t get the CFMEU and the MUA to rat on their group without walking away carrying a big IOU in your pocket.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These snapshots of Shorten’s last six months show why, despite his protests, he is vulnerable as he makes what is likely to be his one bid to become PM when Malcolm Turnbull lowers the green flag for an election sometime this year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The release of the Heydon royal commission report into trade union activity just days before New Year was met with predictable partisan cheers and jeers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senior Opposition figures claim it turned up nothing on the ALP leader, despite its $46 million-plus price tag and what they see as a clear intent to blacken Shorten’s name.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is true but it was not a good report for Shorten. The deal-maker and renowned hands-on union leader told the royal commission he either had nothing to do with or wasn’t aware of details of a string of agreements and side deals with companies when he was the AWU boss.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Companies Shorten had dealings with have been referred to prosecutors for possible further action and his successor Cesar Melhem, now a Victorian Labor MP, also has a cloud of claims over his head.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This problem of proximity is difficult for Shorten but his position is also hampered by the general reaction of Labor and the organised trade union movement to the royal commission.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor says there’s zero tolerance for any wrongdoing, corruption or malfeasance but seems to dismiss the sometimes lurid claims made by Heydon. The <span class="companylink">ACTU</span> says there’s no proof of systemic corruption in the report’s five public volumes and unions most in the spotlight – particularly the CFMEU – mock the commission’s origins, hearings, purpose and findings.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull clearly sees this report as a powerful weapon to wield against Labor and Shorten, issuing a blunt challenge to the ALP to back accountability and governance measures the Coalition is proposing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two key pieces of legislation are in play. The Bills that give union officials the same obligations and responsibilities as company directors has been rejected twice by the Senate – led by Labor and the Greens – and will be brought back when <span class="companylink">Parliament</span> resumes next month.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Also in the locker is a Bill to re-establish the Australian Building and Construction Commission – a Howard-era body abolished by Kevin Rudd ’s government. This is fiercely opposed by the CFMEU, which was constantly under attack from the ABCC.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If these Bills are again knocked back by the Senate in February, they would make a case for a dissolution of both Houses of <span class="companylink">Parliament</span> and an early, pre-Budget election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even if Turnbull decides to wait and go to the polls at the regular time – in about September – he would have a strong argument against Labor for rejecting reforms to clean up instances of union misbehaviour.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Showbags” Shorten will have to dig deep to find some treats to divert attention.Dennis Atkins is The Courier-Mail’s national affairs editor. dennis.atkins@news.com.au</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Ross James   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tasmania is blessed with a large number of significant wooden vessels and people prepared to fight for them, writes Ross James</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Maritime heritage is a tender subject in some quarters. Or so it appeared to some at a recent Maritime Heritage Conference in Hobart.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As you could imagine, it is a subject containing its share of professionals, passionate individuals and intellectuals prepared to debate the merits of originality opposed to usability, restoration or re-creation, heritage vessel or just another old <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tasmanians have proportionally more invested in this debate than any other state. We are blessed with a large percentage of vessels of significant age, and thankfully a large number (but still not enough) of people prepared to advocate for, and work on them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 1991, as a nation we cared enough about this subject to have our parliament create an act to bring into existence an institution charged with preserving and promoting our national maritime heritage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The board of the <span class="companylink">Australian National Maritime Museum</span> is charged with this responsibility and the museum is a beautiful, modern building on Darling Harbour in Sydney. To follow the act, it receives $26 million every year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How effectively it succeeds in preserving a representative selection of Australian maritime heritage can be illustrated by this simple example. In the 1920s and ’30s an interstate sailing competition sponsored by the governor-general of Australia, Lord Foster, named the Forster Cup, was fought for keenly between all states. It was described in 1922 by Lord Forster as, “the blue riband of sailing in the Commonwealth”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Though it can be said Sydneysiders alone remained obsessed by the local 18-foot class. Our national collection contains at least four examples of the 18-footers, but not a single Forster Cup <b>boat</b> of the 19 survivors of this class. Unfortunately this example is not unique.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">International maritime heritage collections experts gathered in 2001 to quantify world’s best practice for floating maritime heritage, recognising that the Burra Charter, applied to other artefacts, was limited in application to historic boats. They produced a guide, referred to as the Barcelona Charter, for maritime collection professionals, making a number of recommendations. Strangely our own peak maritime heritage body seems unaware of these.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A key recommendation in the Barcelona Charter states that a vessel should to be preserved in its community context.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ARTICLE 6. A traditional ship is inseparable from the history to which it bears witness and from the waters it sailed. Therefore its home port and area of operation ideally should be in the regions of its former usage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Basically this recommends against central collections. Puzzling indeed that this national body chooses to “collect” in Darling Harbour a pearling lugger, John Lewis, within a port that has never had a pearling industry, or displays a Vietnamese <b>refugee boat</b>, Tu Do, in any other location than Darwin. This does not argue for an absence of a national vessel collection, just that these individual vessels are best interpreted within the context that is most relevant.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Interestingly the Barcelona Charter also advocates against ships in museum static displays. It argues that the best way to preserve an important vessel is to support an environment that allows it to remain in use.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ARTICLE 5. Making use of traditional ships for some socially useful purpose always facilitates their preservation. Such use is therefore desirable but it must not significantly change the exterior layout of the ship. Modifications demanded by a change of function should be kept within these limits.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The National Maritime Museum acknowledges its responsibility to assist restoration projects and other maritime museums around the country by operating a small grant scheme named the Maritime Museums of Australia Project Support Scheme (MMAPSS). It caps these grants at $10,000. In terms of most vessel preservation programs, this sum wouldn’t even buy the paint.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A final point. Given the opportunity cost faced by curators, by which measure is the best use of limited resources to create an exhaustive collection of overseas designed warships, the HMAS Vampire, Onslow, and Advance, while important representative Australian historic maritime heritage projects, are starved for cash and, as in the case of Rowitta and Enterprise, are destroyed for want of any assistance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I freely admit a partisan motive for writing this. As project manager for SteamShip Cartela, I feel highly offended when challenged by the ANMM on our “right” to seek federal funding for this internationally important vessel by those jealously guarding their sole access to the taxpayers’ teat. The message is and always was, Cartela doesn’t need new funding, the ANMM argues that the money we already pay should be more carefully distributed. Sorry, but that plank is rotten.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Find the Barcelona Charter at: european-maritime-heritage.org/docs/Barcelona%20Charter.pdf The Cartela: WAS designed and built in Tasmania.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">HAS served her community of southern Tasmania for more than 100 years. WILL be unique as a coastal timber steamship operating on the Derwent as a tourist vessel when restored.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WILL be owned by all Tasmanians.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WAS the subject of a royal commission in 1926.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">DEFINED the difference between “towage” and “salvage” in the federal High Court in 1916 when rescuing the 10 times bigger Inverness-Shire ASSISTED in breaking a crippling national seamen’s strike in 1919. WAS leased by the Royal Australian Navy at the outbreak of World War I for training and patrol <b>boat</b> duties.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IS a vessel of international significance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ross James has worked in the media. He is a wooden-<b>boat</b> tragic, and has built and restored yachts and vintage motorboats.(The Barcelona Charter) argues that the best way to preserve an important vessel is to support an environment that allows it to remain in use</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Refugees tell it like it is</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>William Yeoman   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rosemary Sayer is communicating stories</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">from refugees that would otherwise remain untold</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I ’m sharing morning tea with Rosemary Sayer, Paul Kyaw and Fauzia Sufizada at the splendid new Centre for Stories in Northbridge. Sayer is appearing as a guest at this year’s Perth Writers Festival next month to talk about her book More to the Story: Conversations with Refugees (Margaret River Press, $27.95).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of the central themes of this year’s festival is empathy. And the Centre for Stories is involved in some key PWF projects, including the Empathy Museum’s A Mile in My Shoes interactive exhibition. So it’s fitting we should be sitting together on this fine spring morning listening to the stories of Paul and Fauzia — refugees who have chapters to themselves in Sayer’s book, where she writes:</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We are all human and we all have a story. By sharing those stories, by listening and talking, maybe we can develop a new conversation in Australia that is more inclusive and welcoming to those who have come here as refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A former journalist and biographer who teaches professional writing at Curtin University, Sayer tells us it’s difficult for many refugees to get their story out into the mainstream community. “So for me as a non-<b>refugee</b> narrator, if I can help push these stories out there in book form, then maybe people will become more aware of them. I still believe in the power of the book,” she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She remembers first telling Paul about her idea for a book. “He told me he had waited a long time to meet somebody who would tell their stories,” she says. “I was quite taken aback by that. I suppose it’s all about trying to give readers the opportunity to walk in somebody else’s shoes.” And so she does, by allowing refugees such as John Nazary, Naw Pi, Akec (Susan) Makur Chuot, Kachoul Piok, Paul and Fauzia to relate their often harrowing but ultimately inspiring stories in their own voices, supported by plenty of historical and factual background.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Paul, 66, arrived in Australia as a <b>refugee</b> 20 years ago with his wife Hazel and son Leigh and now works as an assistant co-ordinator at the Multicultural Services Centre of WA’s Workforce Development Centre, where he helps refugees, <b>asylum</b> seekers and migrants from all around the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An ethnic Karen and Christian working as a pharmacist in Tavoy in Myanmar, Paul found himself on the wrong side of the then military rulers as an active member of the Tavoy Democratic Front. As he tells Sayer in the book, “I knew I had to leave my home in Burma (like many ethnic groups in the country, he finds the military-imposed name ‘Myanmar’ offensive) when the Burmese military shot 50 of my friends and colleagues”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kabul-born Fauzia and her husband Farid, both 37, are Tajik refugees who fled the <span class="companylink">Taliban</span> in Afghanistan; first travelling alone, Farid was one of the <b>asylum</b> seekers plucked from a sinking <b>boat</b> by the crew of the Tampa before being incarcerated in Nauru. Fauzia and the couple’s three children were able to join him in Australia only some years later. Farid and Fauzia now have a successful painting business, while Fauzia runs her own catering business.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In other words, both Paul and Fauzia have overcome incredible hardship to settle in Australia and become valued members of the community. But as Sayer says, they are fortunate in being highly motivated. “They’ve survived incredible things and have found a way through,” she says. “But others need more help as they struggle in a new place with a new language. I know there are people in Australia who still say, ‘We’ve let them in, we’ve given them a home; what more do we need to do?’ That’s a shame.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Paul and Fauzia agree discrimination is still an issue. “I’ve seen job advertisements that basically say if you can’t communicate, please don’t apply,” Paul says. “Sometimes it’s that blunt.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I have a friend whose husband has a double degree,” Fauzia says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He was told he had to change his name and shave his beard if he wanted a job.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There are so many engineers driving taxis in Perth,” Paul adds. “We could really use their skills. The basic problem is Australian job experience. That’s why I advise my clients to take great care over their resumes and addressing the criteria in job applications. These are highly qualified people. But they aren’t taught the basics of how to actually apply for jobs.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For Fauzia, who speaks five languages and has worked as an interpreter, it’s all about communication and integration. “The most important thing is to learn to adopt a different culture and learn another language,” she says. “When I came here, I had never spoken English before. Within one year I had finished my Certificate III in English.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She advises practising English everywhere and with anyone. “At the bus stop. In the shopping centre. At hospital. On the street. Just say, ‘Please, I want to talk English with you. If I make a mistake, correct me.’ This is the best way to learn,” she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fauzia, whose local mosque has an exchange program with a nearby church, also stresses the importance of reaching out to different cultures. “I’m not a person who just stays within my own community,” she says. “I have Chinese friends, Indian friends, African friends...I love to study different cultures and different religions.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Islam, Fauzia is clear. “Many Muslims have the wrong idea about Islam,” she says. “You have to know yourself first. If you don’t know yourself, you don’t know God. I want people to understand real community, real Islam, to learn how to communicate and participate with different cultures.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Paul and Fauzia are role models for a multiculturalism that is willing to embrace complexity and difference — something Sayer recognises while agreeing the “<b>refugee</b> issue” is itself complex.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are refugees from camps and refugees who were stateless people for years,” she says. “There are refugees who come as <b>asylum</b> seekers. The terminology is complex. The numbers are huge. Governments and the media confuse things. It’s hard to get to the nub of what’s going on.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“What matters at the end of the day is we’re all human and we all have a personal story. We all have families and we all want to be safe and have a home.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We all have a story.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rosemary Sayer</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Refugees are not the seeds of the problem</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Continued Page 2</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">'We have terribly effective ways of discouraging those who approach us uninvited.'</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">T hrough much of the Western world, 2016 will again be a year dominated by the politics of caring for the millions of people dislocated by war and oppression. Caring for them in safe areas near their own countries is the big problem, if the one that fails to get attention. The politics of taking, and absorbing a small proportion, perhaps 3 per cent into long-term refuge abroad has already become the most contentious issue in Europe and the United States. Some world leaders have been extraordinarily generous in offering their nation's help, particularly Angela Merkel in Germany. The task she has set her nation involves a considerable economic and social swallow, from a nation that has yet to completely absorb its own from East Germany, as well as the social problems of an existing large migrant workforce. In Germany, and some of its neighbours, such as France and Hungary, are right-wing nationalistic groups opposed to immigration and multiculturalism, and gaining support from fear of militant Islam. This is a year in which we may find political and social limits, if not economic ones, to human kindness and moral duty. Here in Australia, many think comfortably that we can keep it a second-order issue. We have secure and broad sea boundaries rigorously patrolled by forces with a new mission of repelling helpless boarders. We have terribly effective ways of discouraging those who approach us uninvited. Never has our powerful navy, once established and equipped to fight armed adversaries, been so focused on people so helpless. Its victories, if it has them, are such that the public is not allowed to know. We have returned <b>asylum</b> seekers, after quick and dirty and interested tests to genuineness, to those from whom they have fled. Those not sent home or to places where they have no hope or prospects are delivered to foreign client Third World countries. Frank bribery has been involved, as well as the corruption and distortion of national aims and processes, including our own. We have "systematised" mistreatment by tamed officials of Third World governments, hired deniable and essentially unaccountable civil contract warders and prison guards, effectively operating outside our law. And we have immigration officials and politicians lost to kindness, decency, compassion and any sense of a fair go to tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to be free. It is idle to argue that public servants involved are merely carrying out government policy; the reshaping of their department preselected enthusiasts for the policies in question. What is not clear is whether the Australian policy and attitudes to refugees will change because of external pressures, including strong criticism by the international community, or because of argument and debate inside Australia, including responses to fresh events. The odds favour external shock. Although about a quarter of the population is vehemently opposed to our <b>refugee</b> policies, the majority give them at least passive support. Both parties in a position to govern support the policies. Labor, after a wrenching debate during which its own doubters were forced to accept that Tony Abbott had them wedged on the issue, now "admits" its old policies were wrong and made the problems worse. Although Labor is the author of many of the most objectionable policies, the electorate believes it was the party that dropped the ball on the subject while in government, and that the foundation of all sound policy, reflected in Liberal practice, is "stopping the</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Refugees not the seeds of the problem as distrust grows</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From Page 1</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">boats" and denying any hope to those who gamble with arrival by sea. Opponents of the policy need new arguments. It's not necessarily that their existing arguments are wrong, but they have not convinced the electorate, nor moved the reasoning processes or hearts of the two mainstream parties. The tide is not turning. The majority, moreover, has accepted several dubious propositions linking different parts of the policy. Most now believe we became consciously cruel to <b>boat</b> people because we discovered that some of them might drown if they resort to boats. Others think <b>boat</b> people are somehow innocent pawns in a higher moral order battle against wicked people smugglers. We cannot, apparently, show compassion because it would be playing into the people smugglers' hands. That has only ever been dressing for the fact, since Tampa, that our leaders repel <b>asylum</b> seekers wherever we can and whenever we can simply because we do not want them, except on our own terms. Europe's problems in 2015 underline the luxury of this position. I have no great time for people smugglers - who profit from human misery and, in the process, put lives at risk. But I do not see them as morally greatly different from</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian corporations making fortunes from providing least-cost misery and suicidal thoughts to our <b>boat</b> people, or cigarette manufacturers and their lobby groups, such as the <span class="companylink">Institute of Public Affairs</span>. Our economic community is based on people who exploit opportunities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some people have hoped for a more enlightened policy from Malcolm Turnbull, even as they have come to realise that there is no hope of different policies from Bill Shorten and Richard Marles. The latter two argue that the policy is right because it is popular. Turnbull, so far, has argued that the policy is right because it is effective, an entirely different proposition. It allows for the possibility that more effective policies might be found. Yet there is no prospect whatever that alternatives could come from his minister or his department. It would be for Turnbull and cabinet, not Peter Dutton, to specify more effective than what? At stopping drownings at sea, something Turnbull has argued. At stopping people smugglers? In pushing people into the right queue, if such a thing exists? Or simply in maintaining Australia as a fortress isolated from the world, one that, in part thanks to our own policies, has created millions of people without homes, safety or peace? Many oppose any entry of <b>asylum</b> seekers because, notwithstanding all the evidence, they are convinced that most are not</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"genuine" refugees. Most are. Some think most are, at best, economic refugees, people looking for a better future. We have about 200,000 of these a year without great disquiet: they are called immigrants. Refugees might want a better life, but they are not approved on that account. Others fear that <b>asylum</b> seekers are terrorists in disguise or, perhaps, simply Muslim and thus, supposedly, problematic in assimilation terms. The strength of such feelings means that the harder the line against entry, the more popular the policy will be. Yet if that justified a border blockade, it does not and cannot justify cruelty to detainees, particularly ones involved in the decision to seek refuge. Nor need it prevent - indeed it could argue for - a focus on improving conditions in places of immediate <b>refugee</b>, such as (in relation to Syria) Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon. Or intermediate refuge, such as Indonesia, Malaysia or Thailand, whose "hospitality", such as it is, depends on the assumption that refugees will use their land as a launching pad elsewhere. It was Turnbull who helped shame Abbott into agreeing to take 12,000 Syrian refugees, a high number by comparison with most English-speaking countries, if very low, absolutely or proportionately, compared with Europe. Repeated claims to ourselves,</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">using bodgy figures comparing oranges with apples, that we are among the most generous in the world only highlight how Australian discussion of <b>refugee</b> problems is now very insular and that, in this, we no longer see ourselves as a world citizen, let alone a leader. We are not, at the moment, a nation that deserves another turn at the Security Council, whether for credit in the bank, current policies or the promise of things to come. Even by Australian standards, Britain's response has been paltry and shameful, taking, annually, about a third of what Australia proposes. The US once promised places for a miserable 10,000, and even that is now up in the air. Canada, this week, promised to take 50,000 this year - more than Australia, the US and Britain put together - and about twice what it originally pledged. By any standards the acts and interventions of the English-speaking union in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan suggest that they should be bearing a higher proportion of the outcome of their policies than the countries of Europe, or the nations of the Middle East. But much of the politics, national and international, of <b>refugee</b> movements is focused on the status quo - the 60 million people with uprooted lives, and the small proportion of them, perhaps 3 per cent, who are looking for refuge in the West. The</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">dynamics will change as fresh conflict erupts in the Middle East, Central Asia, the Horn of Africa and northern Africa, and fresh waves of refugees arrive. If Europe is finding it hard to cope now, how then? It's a debate bound to be bedevilled yet again by domestic terrorism, primarily (of course and as ever) in Muslim countries, but also from home-grown terrorists in Western countries. There will be no shortage of those insisting, as Donald Trump seems to, that the solution is a big wall around one's country, and incarceration and or deportation of all Muslims. Too often we forget that our refugees are not the seeds of the problem, but themselves victims of it. They are people whose homes have been bombed out of existence. People whose relatives have been vaporised or beheaded or tortured. People persecuted and murdered by fanatical religious terrorists, some of whom we number or have numbered as being on our side. People who have lost family, land and belongings in fierce tribal and religious wars, ones in which they have had no part and that they have never had any capacity to control. People now, overwhelmingly, eking out an existence in enormous <b>refugee</b> camps in adjoining countries with minimal facilities, and no capacity to provide continuing education and welfare to young families; people with professional or</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">technical skills unable to be harnessed because they have been uprooted. Not people without hope or prospects, but people whose lives, talents and futures are being squandered. More than 98per cent of them, most likely, will end up returning home, if and when it is safe for them to return. Turnbull and Dutton, and no doubt, legacy protectors such as Abbott and John Howard must bless themselves with glee when, often, a fresh round of bleeding hearts emerges to express concern about Australia's awful indifference to refugees. They hardly have to respond, given the growl and the sneer that comes automatically from those who support the policies, with extra added spite because it comes from the "usual suspects". Indeed, expression of minority anguish about our official inhumanity may actually serve to reinforce the existing policy, reminding the majority of voters of perhaps the major achievement of the Abbott government. King Herod was never more alive than at this season of Christmas and Epiphany: a Jesus born today could not have been visited by three kings. Nor could he, and his family, have fled to Egypt if Egypt was following Abbott's recommendation we, for now, suspend any notion of charity to others in need. Praise be our Christian heritage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">boats" and denying any hope to those who gamble with arrival by sea. Opponents of the policy need new arguments. It's not necessarily that their existing arguments are wrong, but they have not convinced the electorate, nor moved the reasoning processes or hearts of the two mainstream parties. The tide is not turning. The majority, moreover, has accepted several dubious propositions linking different parts of the policy. Most now believe we became consciously cruel to <b>boat</b> people because we discovered that some of them might drown if they resort to boats. Others think <b>boat</b> people are somehow innocent pawns in a higher moral order battle against wicked people smugglers. We cannot, apparently, show compassion because it would be playing into the people smugglers' hands. That has only ever been dressing for the fact, since Tampa, that our leaders repel <b>asylum</b> seekers wherever we can and whenever we can simply because we do not want them, except on our own terms. Europe's problems in 2015 underline the luxury of this position. I have no great time for people smugglers - who profit from human misery and, in the process, put lives at risk. But I do not see them as morally greatly different from</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian corporations making fortunes from providing least-cost misery and suicidal thoughts to our <b>boat</b> people, or cigarette manufacturers and their lobby groups, such as the <span class="companylink">Institute of Public Affairs</span>. Our economic community is based on people who exploit opportunities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some people have hoped for a more enlightened policy from Malcolm Turnbull, even as they have come to realise that there is no hope of different policies from Bill Shorten and Richard Marles. The latter two argue that the policy is right because it is popular. Turnbull, so far, has argued that the policy is right because it is effective, an entirely different proposition. It allows for the possibility that more effective policies might be found. Yet there is no prospect whatever that alternatives could come from his minister or his department. It would be for Turnbull and cabinet, not Peter Dutton, to specify more effective than what? At stopping drownings at sea, something Turnbull has argued. At stopping people smugglers? In pushing people into the right queue, if such a thing exists? Or simply in maintaining Australia as a fortress isolated from the world, one that, in part thanks to our own policies, has created millions of people without homes, safety or peace? Many oppose any entry of <b>asylum</b> seekers because, notwithstanding all the evidence, they are convinced that most are not</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"genuine" refugees. Most are. Some think most are, at best, economic refugees, people looking for a better future. We have about 200,000 of these a year without great disquiet: they are called immigrants. Refugees might want a better life, but they are not approved on that account. Others fear that <b>asylum</b> seekers are terrorists in disguise or, perhaps, simply Muslim and thus, supposedly, problematic in assimilation terms. The strength of such feelings means that the harder the line against entry, the more popular the policy will be. Yet if that justified a border blockade, it does not and cannot justify cruelty to detainees, particularly ones involved in the decision to seek refuge. Nor need it prevent - indeed it could argue for - a focus on improving conditions in places of immediate <b>refugee</b>, such as (in relation to Syria) Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon. Or intermediate refuge, such as Indonesia, Malaysia or Thailand, whose "hospitality", such as it is, depends on the assumption that refugees will use their land as a launching pad elsewhere. It was Turnbull who helped shame Abbott into agreeing to take 12,000 Syrian refugees, a high number by comparison with most English-speaking countries, if very low, absolutely or proportionately, compared with Europe. Repeated claims to ourselves,</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">using bodgy figures comparing oranges with apples, that we are among the most generous in the world only highlight how Australian discussion of <b>refugee</b> problems is now very insular and that, in this, we no longer see ourselves as a world citizen, let alone a leader. We are not, at the moment, a nation that deserves another turn at the Security Council, whether for credit in the bank, current policies or the promise of things to come. Even by Australian standards, Britain's response has been paltry and shameful, taking, annually, about a third of what Australia proposes. The US once promised places for a miserable 10,000, and even that is now up in the air. Canada, this week, promised to take 50,000 this year - more than Australia, the US and Britain put together - and about twice what it originally pledged. By any standards the acts and interventions of the English-speaking union in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan suggest that they should be bearing a higher proportion of the outcome of their policies than the countries of Europe, or the nations of the Middle East. But much of the politics, national and international, of <b>refugee</b> movements is focused on the status quo - the 60 million people with uprooted lives, and the small proportion of them, perhaps 3 per cent, who are looking for refuge in the West. The</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">dynamics will change as fresh conflict erupts in the Middle East, Central Asia, the Horn of Africa and northern Africa, and fresh waves of refugees arrive. If Europe is finding it hard to cope now, how then? It's a debate bound to be bedevilled yet again by domestic terrorism, primarily (of course and as ever) in Muslim countries, but also from home-grown terrorists in Western countries. There will be no shortage of those insisting, as Donald Trump seems to, that the solution is a big wall around one's country, and incarceration and or deportation of all Muslims. Too often we forget that our refugees are not the seeds of the problem, but themselves victims of it. They are people whose homes have been bombed out of existence. People whose relatives have been vaporised or beheaded or tortured. People persecuted and murdered by fanatical religious terrorists, some of whom we number or have numbered as being on our side. People who have lost family, land and belongings in fierce tribal and religious wars, ones in which they have had no part and that they have never had any capacity to control. People now, overwhelmingly, eking out an existence in enormous <b>refugee</b> camps in adjoining countries with minimal facilities, and no capacity to provide continuing education and welfare to young families; people with professional or</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">technical skills unable to be harnessed because they have been uprooted. Not people without hope or prospects, but people whose lives, talents and futures are being squandered. More than 98per cent of them, most likely, will end up returning home, if and when it is safe for them to return. Turnbull and Dutton, and no doubt, legacy protectors such as Abbott and John Howard must bless themselves with glee when, often, a fresh round of bleeding hearts emerges to express concern about Australia's awful indifference to refugees. They hardly have to respond, given the growl and the sneer that comes automatically from those who support the policies, with extra added spite because it comes from the "usual suspects". Indeed, expression of minority anguish about our official inhumanity may actually serve to reinforce the existing policy, reminding the majority of voters of perhaps the major achievement of the Abbott government. King Herod was never more alive than at this season of Christmas and Epiphany: a Jesus born today could not have been visited by three kings. Nor could he, and his family, have fled to Egypt if Egypt was following Abbott's recommendation we, for now, suspend any notion of charity to others in need. Praise be our Christian heritage.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2063 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2 January 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>F006</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Clockwise from top left, Four Sunbathers, Lorne (1968) Photo: Rennie Ellis/Ellis Archive; Ocean Man (2013) Photo: Polixeni Papapetrou/<span class="companylink">National Gallery of Victoria</span>; The Girls #2 (2007) Photo: Anne Zahalka/Mornington Peninsula Gallery.Pictures: (Zahalka) courtesy Arc One Alf Stanbrough supports Bonnie Nixon and Hazel Balmus with Wal Balmus on top, while Jack Goldberg observes (1938). Photo: George Caddy</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since Captain Cook landed at Botany Bay, we've felt our culture is tied to beaches. It's a complex relationship, writes Andrew Stephens.</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I t's been a decade since the Cronulla riots, but still those images of aggressive flag-waving and violence confront us, partly because it all happened on such revered ground: the beach. It's a place, after all, with immense meaning and symbolism for Australians, a site we usually associate with relaxation and an egalitarian spirit. Europeans made first landing and first contact on a beach, with Captain Cook disembarking on the shores of Botany Bay, and since then the beach has seen successive waves of migrants make their arrival by sea on convict ships, passenger liners and leaky <b>refugee</b> vessels. It is the place, too, where much local film and fiction has been set, most poignantly when Neville Shute annihilated us all in his apocalypse novel On the Beach. Little wonder, then, that it is such a complex place - and one that has for decades been awash with bold archetypes: the lifesaver, the beach belle and the beach bum, the surfer and the sunbather, not to forget characters in the likes of Puberty Blues, Seachange or Home and Away. It is there, with the bronzed Aussie at leisure amid sun, sand and surf, that we seem to still collectively imagine ourselves and our culture. Or do we? Australians' leisure time has become far more varied, fraught and complex in recent decades, and the simple symbolism of the beachside legend - as epitomised by Max Dupain's iconic photograph Sunbaker (1937) - might now seem something of a relic, especially after Cronulla. Were Dupain's Sunbaker reshot today, he might be staring at a mobile phone. And probably on his couch, not the beach. Australians love leisure - or at least the idea of it - and we once imagined a future (which we still await) in which we would have increasing amounts of leisure time to indulge ourselves in activities we like to think are national pastimes: swimming, playing sports, and enjoying the big outdoors. On the other hand, we regularly hear alarming reports about how we are becoming more time poor and sedentary - teens sitting on their skinny-jeaned behinds gazing blankly at multiple screens; herds of fat families thickshaking their way to national obesity crises in shopping malls, and harried office workers hardly lifting a finger other than to tap frenziedly at their keyboards late into the night. The Bureau of Statistics, to corroborate, reported in 2013 that Australians spend one entire month a year watching telly. Put that alongside another shocking figure - suggesting that only 8 per cent of Australian adults swim in any one year - and the Speedo-clad Adonis and Aphrodite of our imaginations quickly drown. Where is the truth in all these cliches and extremes of how we spend our time? Has leisure been subsumed by all our other activities to the point that we can't distinguish downtime from overtime? And where did those national myths of bronzed sportiness originate? When work by photographer George Caddy came to light a few years ago, the images he took seemed to confirm - and bolster - the national mythology about beachside leisure. Caddy beautifully captured our finest, toned specimens in a variety of situations. There they are, for example, cavorting on the sand in a sport called "beachobatics", popular at Bondi during the years that Caddy was active (between 1936-1941). Those and others of his sumptuous photos - lifesavers, beach beauties, frolicking kids, and images with titles such as Bondi Babes and Surf Goddess - were brought to the <span class="companylink">State Library of NSW</span>'s photography curator, Alan Davies, for</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">assessment in 2007: 290 of them in a cardboard box that had been carefully stored by Caddy's son Paul. Caddy junior had found the box while clearing out his late father's Maroubra flat in 1983, but had not immediately appreciated how precious the photographs were - he stored them and forgot about them for about 20years, then decided to see if they were of artistic value. He contacted Davies and they have now entered the upper realms of 20th-century Australian photography. We might feel nostalgic for a time when we could imagine ourselves on Caddy's beaches, deliciously at leisure. Yet, as philosopher Alain de Botton explains in The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, we now have trouble separating work from pleasure. While all societies have always had work at their centre, Western culture is the first to suggest that our choice of occupation should define our identity and make us happy, providing a route to meaningful existence and endowing us with the feelings and experiences we once sought through leisure pursuits. In the 18th century, de Botton explains, bourgeois thinkers transposed to the field of work the satisfactions which ancient Greek philosophers had identified withleisure. "Tasks lacking in any financial reward were drained of all significance," he writes. "It now seemed as impossible that one could be happy and unproductive as it had once</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">seemed unlikely that one could work and be human." Melbourne curator Wendy Garden, who has been working for the past two years on a new exhibition called On The Beach, has been intrigued by how the meanings of Australian beach culture have changed. The exhibition, which includes Caddy's work, looks at how the beach has long had a privileged place in the Australian psyche - but how it has also been a site for contesting meanings about identity. Garden's exhibition includes a huge array of 76 works, from the photos of Dupain and Caddy to more myth- challenging works by artists such as Anne Zahalka and Dianne Jones, both of whom reimagine some classic beach imagery in contemporary contexts. Zahalka, for example, takes the classic 1940 painting Australian Beach Pattern by Charles Meere, turning it into a staged photo filled with ordinary people of various body types - unlike Meere's heroic and idealised beach bathers. Jones, of Indigenous heritage, inserts herself cheekily into various Dupain photographs. Both artists question our perceptions of beachside culture and ask, simply, whose version of Australian culture do we imagine there? Garden looks under all the layers at what is really going on. "The fact that we have public beaches in Australia, unlike the privately owned ones in Europe, means we've always seen it as a place where social and class distinctions</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">disappear under the pursuit of pleasure and fun," she says. "We tend to see the beach as an open, egalitarian space for everyone, a great social equaliser. But that powerful myth is different to the reality, where there have been hostilities at the beach all the way from the early days to Cronulla." Caddy's beachobatic photos, she says, are especially insightful on how the beach mythology evolved. This impressive sport, she explains, was underpinned by the notion that one's health and vitality could be equated with "the nation's strength", cementing the idea that fitness was an intrinsic part of being an Australian. She notes that like Dupain's iconic images, Caddy's portrayals are often shot at an upwards angle so that we seem to be looking at towering, heroic forms - especially when it involves that classic Australian role model, the lifesaver. Lifesavers were seen - and portrayed - as a sort of gladiator class that was envied by men and adored by women, she says. Glorified, they became the national ideal - and we've been trying to live up to it ever since, with government agencies using images of them and the seaside to market Australian tourism and migration in posters that "helped to perpetuate international perceptions of Australia as a place dominated by beaches". Professor Tony Veal also sees Australian leisure activities as being far broader and more complicated than the simple beach mythology we cling to. Veal, the co-author of the seminal academic text Australian Leisure, now in its fourth edition, has helped chart the changes in Australian leisure activities across the past two centuries, from all the drinking, whoring and gambling that went on in the early settlements to the diverse range of pursuits we now enjoy. Veal, adjunct professor in the business school at <span class="companylink">Sydney's University of Technology</span>, says that leisure</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">activities range from sports, arts and culture, watching the TV, surfing the internet, tourism and using social media to less socially approved engagements such as gambling, drug and alcohol use, viewing pornography and spraying graffiti. Yet leisure, he says, is not just an activity, it is also an attitude. Gardening or golf, for example, might be seen as leisure in one context or as work in another, depending on the attitude of the participant. Likewise, surfing the internet, engaging with social media, or having a cuppa with a colleague are not easily categorised as either work or leisure - thanks, again, to those Enlightenment thinkers muddying the waters. "But the one thing people always say is that they would participate in more leisure activities if they had more time," Veal says. Their reasoning, though, is deceptive - for it is the excuse people have always given for not doing more to relax. Time deficits, says Veal, are not a new phenomenon. We might take solace - and inspiration - in the work of Tom Roberts, now enjoying a blockbuster-sized new appreciation at the <span class="companylink">National Gallery of Australia</span>. Curator Anna Gray, who felt it was time for us to take a fresh look at his work, says he was a master at portraying Australians at leisure - and one of her favourite paintings is the famous Slumbering Sea, Mentone from 1887. Roberts, during the preceding winter months, had begun to paint outdoors at Darebin and Gardiner's Creek, establishing plein air painting camps at Box Hill. But in January 1887, he and some other painters including Fred McCubbin went on a painting excursion to what was then the outer Melbourne seaside suburbs of Beaumaris and Mentone, where they met up with Arthur Streeton. One of the results was Slumbering Sea. "It is a beautifully composed picture," says Gray. There we see - or perhaps</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">feel - a snoozy air of relaxation, its figures fiddling about with a <b>boat</b> and sitting, simply watching. Likewise Roberts gave us The Sunny South with its naked boys mucking about near the water, and various paintings of Sirius Cove, Coogee and Mosman Bay, where there is no confusion about the slow delights of leisure time. "He chose impressionist subjects - <b>boat</b> sheds, afternoon tea, people rowing," says Gray. "Just the sort of subjects Monet was painting. One of the Sirius Cove paintings I love is just a tiny work with the cliffs, the sea, and a tiny little sailing <b>boat</b> in the water like a brooch drawing your attention. It's beautiful, simple. "And Mentone has such an Australian love of the beach about it: the summer, boating, everything is packed into it." That enticing atmosphere is there, too, in another of the wonderful Caddy photographs from the 1940s. It shows Valmae Maher, a celebrated North Bondi beauty who was regularly featured in magazines of the day as a pinup girl. She posed saucily for Caddy, lying in the sand and wearing an extraordinary outfit that was described as a "swoon suit" thanks to its revealing lace-up panels. As we check our phones for the latest status update or work-related email, we might pause and imagine ourselves as Maher (but perhaps not in the swoon suit): relaxed, happy and running her toes through the hot sand. For she is doing something that many of us consciously or unconsciously desire: precisely nothing. How glorious to be at leisure. On The Beach is at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery until February 28 mprg.mornpen.vic.gov.au/ Tom Roberts is at the <span class="companylink">National Gallery of Australia</span> until March 28 nga.gov.au/ A selection of George Caddy's prints are available at the Age shop; theageshop.com.au/caddy</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a decision that had huge future ramifications for stopping <b>asylum</b> boats reaching the coast, the Hawke government extended Australia's territorial waters from three to 12 nautical miles (22.2 kilometres).</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The decision was taken in almost blissful ignorance of what lay ahead.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a joint submission to cabinet, Foreign Affairs Minister Gareth Evans and Attorney-General Michael Duffy said the decision to go to the 12-mile limit was in keeping with the Law of the Sea Convention, which Australia had signed in 1982.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Although the convention is not yet in force, the right of a state to establish a territorial sea of up to 12 nautical miles is now well established," they said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Some 111 states have now adopted that limit, and Australia is one of only 10 countries that continues to claim a three nautical miles territorial sea."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a confidential briefing to cabinet, the two ministers emphasised the defence and security aspects of extending territorial waters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under a 12 nautical miles limit, unauthorised aircraft could not fly so close to the coastline and the "current freedom enjoyed by potential intelligence collectors" would be halted because submarines would not be within "line of sight" of land, they said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"In the territorial sea, submarines are required to navigate on the surface and to show their flag," they said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The only nod to the <b>asylum boat</b> future came when Senator Evans and Mr Duffy told cabinet that the Australian Customs Service and Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service needed to be able to exercise the greatest protective power permissible.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>490 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>31 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MOUTHING OFF (1) From the website LeFunny.net: “I could give up chocolate but I’m not a quitter.” (2) Practical wisdom: Success is when you have your name in everything but the phone book. (3) From the comic strip Ginger Meggs: “Always be willing to share your ignorance.” (4) In the Twittersphere: “I’m not sure which religion it is, but my neighbours celebrate Christmas by placing all of the husband’s belongings on the front lawn.” – US television host and comedian Conan O’Brien. (5) I am not making this up: Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez smoked 30,000 cigarettes while writing his 1967 book One Hundred Years of Solitude.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">INSIGHT “World’s last virgin at wheel.” – bumper sticker.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">QUOTE, UNQUOTE “There are moments when everything goes as you wish; don’t be frightened, it won’t last.” – French author-playwright Jules Renard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">KEEPING COUNT 7249 — the number of letters in the words “New York City” when written 659 times.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">JUST A THOUGHT It takes a lot of backing to put up a front.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">REMEMBER WHEN Today is December 31, New Year’s Eve and the 365th day of the year. On this day: 1923: The <span class="companylink">BBC</span> broadcast the chimes of Big Ben for the first time. 1943: Singer-songwriter-guitarist John Denver, who died in 1997, was born in Roswell, New Mexico.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1944: Actors Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, pictured, Tyrone Power, Robert Taylor and Claudette Colbert were among the guests at a New Year’s Eve party given by comedian Jack Benny at his Los Angeles home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1953: The film The Robe, directed by Henry Koster and starring Richard Burton, Jean Simmons and Victor Mature, opened at the Regent in Rundle St, city.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1962: Maurice Fisher, writer of the column Out Among the People, retired from The Advertiser.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1965: Radio station 5KA listed Think About Me, by Melbourne-born radio and television compere Ernie Sigley, as Adelaide’s No. 1 hit single.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1994: From The Advertiser: “The Federal Government has moved to stem the flood of illegal <b>boat</b> people by severely tightening its <b>refugee</b> rules.” 1995: In Germany, an 85-year-old man called the police for help after his wife, also 85, locked herself in their bedroom with her 50-year-old lover.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1999: The clock on the Adelaide GPO was two minutes slow at midnight. 2004: South Australian band The Flaming Sambucas performed at a New Year’s Eve party, compered by Scott McBain, in the Adelaide Convention Centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2007: <span class="companylink">Woolworths</span> advertised hot cross buns.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2007: US actor Daryl Hannah told The Daily Telegraph newspaper in London why she had hated being young.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2011: Rupert Murdoch, pictured, opened his Twitter account.2013: From The Advertiser: “The state’s peak motoring body (the RAA) has called for a boycott of major petrol retailers over price rises of more than 20c a litre yesterday and has blamed the supermarket giants.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>A year of political surprise and terror’s tentacles</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>880 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>30 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Malcolm Turnbull’s sunny world view has yet to be tested</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This was a year when the impossible happened and the unspeakable could not be stopped. In February, soon after he served up Prince Philip as an Aussie knight of the realm, Tony Abbott said: “We are not the Labor Party and we are not going to repeat the chaos and the instability of the Labor years.” He was wrong; on September 14 Mr Abbott became the third prime minister to be removed from office in the past five years. In October, the tentacles of <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> reached into Parramatta when 15-year-old Farhad Jabar cold-bloodedly shot dead police worker Curtis Cheng. A month later, a series of <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span>-linked attacks in Paris left 130 innocents dead. For us in the West, <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> was no longer a remote purveyor of the pornography of violence. It has become an everyday fear, both imported and homegrown.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott’s year began with an ill omen. Graeme Killer, physician to five prime ministers, urged him to find an exercise less risky than cycling; he predicted a fall. Mr Abbott also had been reckless politically and ignored sensible advice. He was hooked on his captain’s picks and his political embrace of chief of staff Peta Credlin crowded out the backbench. In February he survived a push for a spill motion by 61 to 39 votes. He declared “good government starts today”. It sounded hollow as soon as it was said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">May’s budget was the inverse of the year before. Instead of painful cuts, there were sweeteners for small business and Tony’s tradies. It was the work of a government focused on its political fortunes, not the ballooning budget deficit. A month later brought a priceless gaffe from treasurer Joe Hockey, who had solved the housing affordability crisis: “get a good job that pays good money,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott’s bad habit of letting a crisis go without effective intervention was excruciatingly on show during Choppergate. Speaker Bronwyn Bishop had spent more than $5000 chartering a helicopter from Melbourne to Geelong to attend a Liberal Party fundraiser — and saw nothing wrong about it. Seemingly everybody else thought it rather rich, even if it was within guidelines, and it took three weeks of political damage before Ms Bishop’s resignation as Speaker was procured on August 2.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A little more than a month later Malcolm Turnbull was sworn in as Australia’s 29th prime minister and promptly reshuffled cabinet. “There has never been anything like this in our politics — a sweeping reconstruction and renewal of a first-term government,” wrote our editor-at-large Paul Kelly. “There has been no election but there is a new government. Malcolm Turnbull has put his stamp all over the Liberal Party.” Turnbull sought to reshape political culture and language. In interviews, he refused to play the game of ruling in or out various options. He admitted policies might fail, and promised to discard these and start again. Nimble, agile and exciting became the Turnbull watchwords as he attempted to encourage optimism and entrepreneurship. This sunny world view has yet to encounter a serious political test.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The challenge of security and terror confronted both the Abbott and Turnbull governments this year. The Lindt cafe tragedy of December last year was still fresh in mind; only a month later 12 people were murdered after an Islamist assault on the Paris offices of the satirical magazine <span class="companylink">Charlie Hebdo</span>. Compassion and outrage crossed borders. That same month, this newspaper chose Jamal Rifi, a physician and Muslim community leader of wisdom and courage, as our Australian of the Year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On September 2, the chaotic horror of the Syrian civil war was given a pitiful human form in the image of Aylan, a three-year-old Syrian boy, lying face down and dead, still neatly dressed, on a Turkish beach after an <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> had capsized. More than a million refugees and migrants, by no means all from Syria, crossed into Europe this year, creating a crisis with consequences still unfolding. Australia agreed to take an extra 12,000 refugees from the Iraq-Syrian conflict.In late November, the limits of the hitherto artificial debate about Islamism were tested when Coalition frontbencher Josh Frydenberg insisted that the religious dimension of terror had to be acknowledged; he said Islamism was “a problem within Islam”. Ten days later, former prime minister Abbott called for a reformation and an enlightenment within Islam, as well as a return of confidence in the decency and tolerance of Western civilisation. Both were reacting to the quasi-official formula whereby the latest Islamist terror attack was summed up by officials and politicians as having nothing to do with Islam. It was in defence of this formula that ASIO’s boss, Duncan Lewis, made an unwise intervention into politics earlier this month by phoning MPs and urging them to use the soothing language favoured by Mr Turnbull in any public discussion of Islam and Islamism. Apart from a tone calculated to encourage Muslim collaboration, there is yet to be a sign of any difference in counter-terrorism strategy between Mr Turnbull and his predecessor.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Former Afghan <b>refugee</b> aiming high</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Rowan Callick Asia-Pacific editor, EXCLUSIVE   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>722 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>29 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia’s most successful Afghan <b>refugee</b> businessman, Alande Mustafa Safi, is to launch a program to attract $1 billion in funds under management within four years, as he extends his network of international offices to San Francisco and London.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His Melbourne-based Paragon Business Group already runs operations in Shanghai, Dubai and Jakarta.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He first built a mortgage broking business, with $624 million under management, then a foreign investment portfolio for potential immigrants, chiefly from China, seeking to come to Australia under the Significant Investor Visa program, for whom he now places about $20m a year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now Mr Safi, 33, is setting up a funds management business.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He has applied for an Australian ­Financial Services Licence and expects to have the Paragon ­Premium Investment Fund ready to attract overseas and Australian wholesale investments by February. The fund will focus initially on development funding, construction loans and property ­finance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Safi will be a director of the new business arm, along with veteran commercial barrister Gerard Kennedy and managed funds expert Pasquale Franzese, who has worked with ANZ and <span class="companylink">NAB</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Safi told The Australian the Australian dollar’s value would suit well the aims of international investor portfolio managers and high net worth individuals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The Australian economy will be a substantial beneficiary.” His nine-company Paragon Business Group is worth $23m, but he has considerable private assets in addition, whose value he does not include.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He arrived as a 12-year-old with his parents and younger brother and sister by air as a <b>refugee</b> from India, where they had fled with suitcases when the <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> of Afghanistan was created and the <span class="companylink">Taliban</span> began its surge to power.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He went into business after Vermont High School in Melbourne’s outer suburbs where, he said, he lived — and exulted in — “a normal Aussie life, in the mainstream”. His father, who was chief justice of Afghanistan, started working in Australia as a translator, and is now a public servant, splitting his time between Canberra and Melbourne.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Safi was given his start by <span class="companylink">Wizard Home Loans</span>, becoming in three years the highest-selling mortgage manager in Victoria and Tasmania. “Because I speak six languages,” he said, “I worked those niche markets, building a $200m loan portfolio.” In early 2009, when Wizard was merged into <span class="companylink">Aussie Home Loans</span>, he launched Paragon. He helps those who only have a 10 per cent down-payment for a home, half what banks require, by taking on the risk for the other half, for “median properties”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Most, like me, have come as refugees or migrants, and while having good prospects, lack the lump sum needed to buy a home.” He is intrigued that some who have come by <b>boat</b> — having paid $8000 to a people-smuggler — “all of a sudden” find the resources to buy a $1m home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His head office in Rowville in Melbourne’s outer east is strategically equidistant from the suburbs that form the main centres of the migrant groups that provide his chief business. Mr Safi has begun extending his interests “beyond the political diaspora”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Some Afghanis take money from <span class="companylink">Centrelink</span> yet pick on the Australian government. I help Afghani projects, such as building a mosque here, but I also support broader community charities like the Royal Children’s Hospital,” he says. “I live a normal life, within the normal bounds of religion” — which means not confining himself to sharia loans but charging interest, which some criticise as un-Islamic.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I say ... pay less for your home and send the money you save to poorer family members or to charity, and let God decide whether you are blessed or not. I’ll admit, I’m a bit of a rebel. I don’t like to go against my religion, but I also like commonsense.” Mr Safi’s ambitions include transforming his company into a bank, including by acquisitions. And he strongly supports increased Chinese investment, which he says means new buildings — “where would those jobs be created from, otherwise?”His wife and daughter travel with him when he flies internationally for business. “I see my daughter, who is 21 months old, as an ambassador for Afghan girls. People look at us as if we were a dynasty in the making. We are.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Soft hearts and softer brains at Fairfax as Abbott derangement syndrome still lingers on</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>493 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>29 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CUT & PASTE Our <b>asylum</b> policies are shameful but Pentridge jail offered model living, it appears</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> logic. The Age editorial, yesterday: It is time to set the refugees free.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Accompanying opinion piece by Julia Gillard’s former policy adviser Nicholas Reece: <b>Asylum</b> seekers: how to end our nation’s shame. Canada’s new Liberal government is showing Australia the way.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Number of <b>asylum</b>-seeker vessel landings on Australian territory, <b>boat</b> arrivals and <b>boat</b> turn-backs in Australia since 1976: a quick guide to the statistics, Commonwealth Parliamentary Library, 2015: 2000: 51 2001: 43 2002: 1 2003: 1 2004: 1 2005: 4 2006: 6 2007: 5 2008: 7 2010: 134 2011: 69 2012: 278 2013: 300 2014: 1 And another crucial figure. Media release, Peter Dutton, August 6: Operation Sovereign Borders has effectively rebuffed people-smugglers with … July marking one year without a successful people-smuggling venture to Australia … Immigration and Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton said … “Importantly since December 2013 there have been no lives lost at life at sea in stark contrast to the Labor years when 1200 people died on perilous journeys in unsafe boats,” Mr Dutton said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">You mean they preferred the original accommodation? Headline, The Age website, yesterday: 19 storey apartments plan for Pentridge “soul destroying”, say opponents.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Arise, Sir Lynton. The <span class="companylink">Sunday Times</span>: Lynton Crosby, David Cameron’s election guru, will receive a knighthood this week …</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A hereditary peerage would be more appropriate given his achievement. Fraser Nelson, The Spectator Coffee House blog, Sunday: Was a political knighthood ever more deserved than Lynton Crosby’s? His personal involvement was the dif­ference between defeat and victory — he kept Ed Miliband out of No 10. As Tim Montgomerie observed earlier, a hereditary peerage would be in order for that alone … Crosby distilled down the Tory offering and encouraged Cameron to drop the misnamed “modernisation” agenda that had so narrowed the party’s popular appeal (and halved its membership). Crosby focused on the basics: tax cuts, efficiency, jobs, prosperity. The safer bet. It was a relatively dull campaign … but Crosby wanted to make this … a choice between stability or risk … Crosby kept his nerve and stuck to his strategy … As a result, Britain turned out to be one of the few countries — perhaps the only country in Europe — to have a general election that led to a government more stable than the one that preceded it. If that’s not worth a knighthood, I’m not sure what is.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But look who Latika Bourke somehow ropes into it. <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span>, yesterday: The likely awarding of a knighthood to Australian-born political strategist Lynton Crosby is being likened to former prime minister Tony Abbott’s disastrous knighting of Prince Philip.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Merry Christmas from the ABC. ABC News website, Friday:Reindeer at risk of disease as climate change causes increase in tick numbers, researchers say.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Asylum</b> seekers: how to end our nation's shame</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NICHOLAS REECE. Nicholas Reece is a principal fellow at the University of Melbourne and a former policy adviser to Labor prime minister Julia Gillard.  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1100 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Memo Mr Turnbull: Canada's new Liberal government is showing Australia how to tackle the <b>refugee</b> issue in a humane manner.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some Liberal MPs have started telling <b>refugee</b> advocates to wait until after the next election and they will see a more humane policy from the Turnbull government. Sorry, not good enough. The horror of war in Syria and the Middle East has left the world facing the biggest humanitarian crisis since the Second World War, with 60 million displaced people seeking a place they can live safely. Australia needs to show more of its generous heart. Not just towards those fleeing the Middle East but also the 2000 people already in our immigration detention facilities and the 29,000 languishing in purgatory in Australia on bridging visas.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Malcolm Turnbull needs to make a New Year's resolution that 2016 will be a year of fairness and freedom for people seeking <b>asylum</b> in Australia. Leadership demands more than a vague promise that something might happen sometime in the next term of government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Stopping the boats" may have been a political victory for the Coalition but it was never going to be the end of the story. Particularly when there are so many practical and politically achievable things that can be done now to deliver a more humane and sustainable system.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Right-wing populist politicians may be on the march in the United States and Europe, with fearmongers such as Donald Trump enjoying soaring popularity. When Trump says he wants "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States", it makes headlines around the world. But far more relevant to Australia is the experience of Canada under new Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Trudeau swept to power last month despite having an unpopular policy to accept 25,000 Syrian refugees by Christmas. An Ipsos poll conducted during the campaign found 60 per cent of Canadians disagreed with the plan. But Trudeau did not walk away from the policy. Instead, he publicly embraced it, visiting the airport to welcome the first planeload of Syrian refugees. "You are safe at home now," he told the "new Canadians". Provincial premiers and the Governor-General followed suit, welcoming subsequent plane loads.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Trudeau government launched an advertising campaign to boost public support for its <b>refugee</b> plan; it promotes Canada's compassionate values and reaffirms its global leading role in <b>refugee</b> resettlement. And guess what? There has been a massive shift in public opinion in favour of the <b>refugee</b> plan. A poll by Forum Research this month found that opposition to the <b>refugee</b> intake had fallen 16 points to 44 per cent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For too long the conventional wisdom in Australia has been that attitudes towards refugees are hardline and immovable. But Australia's doppelganger in the northern hemisphere proves otherwise. More profoundly, Canada shows that politicians don't have to just passively respond to global and domestic events. Good leaders can shape the national conversation and push the boundaries of what policies are politically permissible.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull may have dropped the mendacious rhetoric of his predecessor, which sought political profit from stoking public fear. But where is the reset in the national conversation that Australia so desperately needs, and has proven so powerful in Canada? The reminder that people seeking <b>asylum</b> are pursuing a fundamental human right, and that all of us have the right to live in peace, care for our children, and live free from danger?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is not to suggest a repeat of the mistakes of the Rudd government in 2008, when it dismantled Australia's offshore processing policy. But the new Prime Minister needs a plan beyond offshore detention and <b>boat</b> turn-backs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To begin with, Australia should lift its intake of <b>asylum</b> seekers from Syria. Canada is heading for 50,000 by the end of 2016, while Germany has said it will give temporary protection to 800,000. The Abbott government promised Australia would resettle just 12,000 Syrian refugees, in addition to the existing humanitarian program of 13,750.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull should announce that Australia will match Canada and commit to resettling 50,000 people from Syria by the end of 2016. Remember, Australia accepted 170,000 refugees at the end of the Second World War, and 94,000 from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia after the Vietnam War.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The next part of the policy puzzle is what to do about the 2000 <b>asylum</b> seekers on Nauru, Manus and Christmas Island and the 29,000 stuck in legal purgatory in Australia. Inexplicably, the average time in detention has risen to 446 days, and yet nobody accuses these people, including 105 children, of committing any crime. The suicides, the rapes and the abuse of children are just the tip of an iceberg of human suffering caused by our government's decisions in respect of these people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Let's start with getting all the kids out of detention. This was part of a deal in Federal Parliament more than a year ago, and there is simply no argument that can justify detention of these children by Australian authorities for a single day more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The next thing to do is to escalate negotiations with safe countries - what about South Korea, Taiwan, Japan or even Canada - to find permanent settlement for those left in detention. Running these facilities is costing the Australian government well over $1 billion a year. You can come up with a lot of creative options with that sort of money. And in the meantime, let's at least establish independent oversight of the offshore detention centres.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As for the 29,000 people in Australia, they are the product of policy changes in 2012. The establishment of offshore processing and <b>boat</b> turn-backs means there is no longer any reason for their purgatory. It is time to fast-track work rights and a pathway to permanent residency.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Finally, we need the government to pursue a genuine "regional solution". This is the most realistic and durable long-term approach. The recent improvement in relations with Indonesia should make this easier. Again, our Prime Minister could ask, "What would Liberal-led Canada do?" By showing some leadership, Australia could drive the long-sought-after regional solution.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We should demand nothing less in 2016.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nicholas Reece is a principal fellow at the <span class="companylink">University of Melbourne</span> and a former policy adviser to Labor prime minister Julia Gillard.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Refugees tempted with false promise</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SAMANTHA MAIDEN   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>250 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PEOPLE smugglers have been caught out trying to exploit desperate <b>asylum</b> seekers during the Christmas period by claiming Australia’s Border Force is “on holidays’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We know that there is chatter out there that they are targeting Christmas,’’ Major General Andrew Bottrell said.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They are looking at the Christmas period as a means to push boats to Australia. “Well, we are absolutely ready – 24 hours a day. If anything, we are reinforced over this period.” As the Federal Government marks the second anniversary of Operation Sovereign Borders, officials have revealed that Australia has turned back 685 <b>asylum</b> seekers on 23 boats since the operation began.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sovereign Borders commander Maj-Gen Bottrell revealed the policy has forced people smugglers to use desperate new tactics to get <b>asylum</b> seekers on to their boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum</b> seekers have been largely ignoring their ­coercions, now it is well known that even if you board a <b>boat</b> you will never be resettled in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 23 boats turned back in the past two years carrying 685 people compares with 400 vessels carrying more than 26,500 <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrived in Australia in the final year of the Gillard-Rudd government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to OSB data, most <b>asylum</b> seekers being held in offshore detention centres are subsequently found to be genuine refugees.Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the greatest endorsement of the policy was <b>asylum</b> seekers had stopped drowning at sea when they risked their lives to get here.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>TURN-BACK PLAN FOILS <b>BOAT</b> PLOY</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SAMANTHA MAIDEN   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>402 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">OPERATION Sovereign Borders has turned back 23 boats carrying 685 <b>asylum</b> seekers since it started almost two years ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The extent of the turn-backs has been revealed for the first time as its commander Major General Andrew Bottrell says the success of the policy has forced people smugglers to deploy desperate new tactics to get <b>asylum</b> seekers on to their boats.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But savvy <b>asylum</b> seekers are largely ignoring their ­coercions, as it is now well-known in the region that even if you board a <b>boat</b> you will never be resettled in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We know that there is chatter out there that they are targeting Christmas,” Major General Bottrell said. “They are looking at the Christmas period as a means to push boats to Australia. Well, we are absolutely ready – 24 hours a day. If anything, we are reinforced over this period.” The 23 boats turned back in the past two years carrying 685 people compares with 400 vessels carrying more than 26,500 <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrived in Australia in the final year of the Gillard-Rudd government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to operation data, most <b>asylum</b> seekers being held in offshore detention centres – about 80 per cent of those held on Nauru and about half on Manus Island – are subsequently found to be genuine refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Officials say people smugglers will try and exploit “any milestone” – including the election of Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister and the changeover from Scott Morrison to Peter Dutton as Immigration Minister – because it is now so difficult to convince <b>asylum</b> seekers to board boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the greatest endorsement of the policy was <b>asylum</b> seekers had stopped drowning at sea when they risked their lives to get here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Operation Sovereign Borders has been an outstanding success. We have stopped the boats. We have stopped the deaths at sea,” Mr Dutton said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“But the price of that success is constant vigilance. The people smugglers are insidious criminal organisations that will stop at nothing. They are trying daily to ­cajole people to board their boats and will distort or use any event or comment in Australia – such as the change in Cabinet ministers or the change in prime minister – to claim our policies have changed. They have not.”The most recent Operation Sovereign Borders monthly update shows two attempted illegal <b>boat</b> ventures were turned back in November.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document COUMAI0020151226ebcr0009m</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SMHH000020151225ebcq0001w" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News Review - Opinion</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>We lose the plot in real-life migrant tales</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Josephine Tovey is a Fairfax journalist based in the United States.  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>871 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>29</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Eilis Lacey, the young working class protagonist in Colm Toibin's novel Brooklyn, leaves behind a beloved mother and sister in Enniscorthy, Ireland, in the early 1950s, to make a lonely and difficult <b>boat</b> journey to New York City.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Her voyage is propelled by the desire that takes most immigrants away from their home country - the possibility of a better life somewhere else.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it's punishingly hard. Homesickness eats away at her. When she arrives, nothing is familiar, and Toibin describes her thoughts:</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"She was nobody here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It was not just that she had no friends and family; it was rather that she was a ghost in this room, in the streets on the way to work, on the shop floor ... Nothing here was part of her. It was false, empty."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But she perseveres. The poignant story - recently adapted to film - follows her as she falls in love with a Italian-American boy, learns to twirl spaghetti on a fork and, even if reluctantly, puts roots down in her new home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Novels and films like the acclaimed Brooklyn prove the enduring appeal of the immigrant or <b>refugee</b> story. Whether it's a tale of arrival, like this one, or the story of an escape, as in The Sound of Music, we're accustomed to cheering people striking out to make better or safer lives elsewhere.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But while in fiction or history these stories have a great capacity to move us, we too often display an alarming lack of empathy for the Eilis Laceys or Von Trapps of today.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The film adaptation of Brooklyn received its first awards nominations this month, at the end of what has been a monumental year for the displacement and movement of real human beings around the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The United Nations reported this week that the number of refugees fleeing to Europe in 2015 hit 1 million, half of those Syrians fleeing the war in their country. More people have been displaced from their homes this year than any time since World War II.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And yet the ability of those of us in stable, safe Western nations to see the migrants and refugees of today as human beings deserving of our sympathy and fair treatment feels ever more fragile as this year draws to a close.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many in the media and in politics continue to link the arrival of outsiders to vague threats about safety, terrorism and economic decline, and use these fears to justify harsh and inhumane policy responses.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This rhetoric has hopefully reached its nadir as so-called leaders including Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump champion policies that might have seemed unthinkable just a few years ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He calls for building a wall across all of America's southern border to guard against undocumented migrants entering from Mexico. He says these people bring drugs, crime and are "rapists". He has called for a ban on Muslims and Syrian refugees from entering the United States.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He plays on the same themes, if only in a more extreme way, that many Australian politicians and pundits have for years - portraying <b>asylum</b> seekers who come by <b>boat</b> as dangerous interlopers or craven opportunists, as an indistinct mass of "illegal" men, women and children, who accordingly, are subject to cruel, long-term detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Among these men and women who do make it to Australia of course are thousands of powerful individual stories, of intrepid attempts to make a new home somewhere, of learning to twirl spaghetti or make friends and fall in love with unfamiliar people. And of even greater feats - of daring escapes from war and oppression.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fazel Chegeni fled Iran and arrived in Australia in 2010 after years of harassment and torture by local authorities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was found to be a <b>refugee</b> and realised his dream of a new and freer life in Melbourne. But only for a brief period. He was placed back into indefinite immigration detention, following an assault charge, despite no custodial sentence over the incident.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was found dead in bushland outside the Christmas Island detention centre last month. The Department of Immigration and Border Protection confirmed it to the media by stating an "illegal maritime arrival" had died.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Chegeni's story of migration, struggle and survival was as compelling and tragic as any work of fiction a writer could dream up. Yet even in death, the Australian government could not acknowledge his humanity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is easy to applaud and enjoy stories of migration or the <b>refugee</b> experience through the soft lens of history and fiction. In immigrant nations like the United States and Australia in particular, they tell us something about where we've come from, about the resilience and pioneering spirit our ancestors showed in leaving beloved homelands to come to unfamiliar places.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But we should also recognise these stories are unfolding around us every day, often with a far greater degree of difficulty and brutality than many of us could comprehend.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In these stories, we are not simply popcorn-chomping viewers, but characters who have real agency in how the narrative plays out.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>To the islands</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>FIONA CAPP   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1562 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SUMMER</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From the beaches of a Melbourne summer, fingers of land feed a childhood fascination, writes FIONA CAPP.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They appear and disappear with the tide. Lozenges of exposed, rippled sea-floor. Pale, prune-like fingers granted their hour or two in the sun before the waves wash over them again. As a girl, I loved the way you could stand on these sandbanks and plant your flag, claim them as your dominion. Each was a tiny Atlantis, a blank slate of magical possibilities; an island in time made all the more precious because its existence was brief.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For many of us, this is our first introduction to the mysterious nature of islands, apart from the islands we encounter in books and films. While the "desert island" of popular culture, literature and myth is invariably somewhere isolated, far-flung, off the map of ordinary life, those little sandbanks created by low tide remind us that island mystique is not dependent on remoteness or isolation. It can, in fact, be found close to home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two islands have hovered in my consciousness since my earliest days spent playing on Sorrento front beach over summer. The South Channel Fort was a solid, dark lump on the horizon, too far to swim to but close enough to beckon. The Mud Islands only made an appearance when the weather was especially clear and still. Off in the distance, across Port Phillip Bay to the north, they were a shadowy, shapeless presence, little more than a mirage. I would study these islands on the big map of the bay we had hanging in our beach house and vowed that one day I would get a little <b>boat</b> and go explore them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It has taken almost 50 years and something more than pure curiosity to make it happen. Islands have been in the news more than ever lately. The disappearing islands of the Pacific. The islands just off our shores where <b>asylum</b>-seekers are banished. The islands in the Aegean to which Syrian refugees are fleeing in the hope of a new life in the West. Islands are our most enduring symbols of paradise, of escape, of refuge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But they also have a darker side, as places of exile and imprisonment. I want to know why they exert such a hold over our imaginations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Which is why I find myself on shipwright Mike Randall's 20-seater, which he designed and built especially for taking people like me, who never managed to get themselves that little <b>boat</b>, out to the islands of the bay. He and his wife, Sarah, run the sightseeing business South Bay Eco Adventures and share a passion for educating the public about the marine world on Melbourne's doorstep.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The forecast is for low 30s, with a light wind turning south-easterly in the afternoon. But as we motor out of the Queenscliff harbour just after noon, the sea breeze is already up and fresher than expected. We are in for a bracing ride. We skip across the chop, stopping briefly at the artificial, horseshoe-shaped reef of the Pope's Eye, the air raucous with the cries of Australasian gannets and black-faced cormorants, and then on to the man-made octagonal platform of the Chinaman's Hat where Australian fur seals bellow, bicker and play.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Far from being the empty plain of water it appears to be from the shore, the bay is buzzing with life. Apart from the wildlife, there's plenty of human action. Big white ferries shuttle back and forth, motor boats and yachts zap past, great tankers plough the narrow shipping channel as they head for the Rip.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On approach, the dome of the South Channel Fort, with its meteorological tower like a central flagpole, brings to mind a diminutive Capital Hill. As we get closer, I am struck by how small it is, just the size of a few suburban house blocks. Its rocky compactness, the dun concrete of its miniature harbour and fortified wall, and the khaki vegetation give it the air of a museum diorama. I find it hard to believe that I have finally arrived at what has always been a distant smudge on the skyline. The moment I step foot on the island the initial impression of dinkiness is dispelled. Like the grand houses of Melbourne, this is a structure built on solid bluestone foundations - not to mention concrete pillars sunk to the sandstone rock base.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We walk past the old parade ground and up on to the sandy, scrub-covered top. All around us, silver gulls hover on the wind currents and little penguins cower in their wooden nesting boxes dotted among the low-lying bushes. Our guide, retired park ranger Lachie Jackson, leads us into the concrete bunker of underground tunnels where the ammunition and gunpowder for naval mines and the island's large disappearing guns were once stored.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His voice echoing through the lime-washed alcoves, Jackson explains how the fort was built in the 1880s as part of a network of defences at the Heads, and about the restorations he made when he worked here. But it is not until we reach the room at the far end of the labyrinth of passageways that the island transcends its history and enters the realm of myth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the mid-1980s, a man named Joe was released from prison and was having trouble adjusting to life on the outside. He applied for a job as the island's caretaker and this dark, dank chamber, with its makeshift wooden bed and dusty rectangle of carpet thrown over the concrete floor, became his home. In a reversal of the classic tale of those exiled to outposts such as St Helena and Devil's Island, Joe found refuge on the fort. The position offered solitude but not too much. On weekends, a good mate from the homicide squad would come out to fish with him, his girlfriend would visit and members of Friends of the Fort delivered home-made cakes. At night Joe could hear the hum of the traffic on the mainland and watch the lights of Melbourne bouncing off the clouds. After 14 months on the island, he went on to a career with the National Parks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Back in the <b>boat</b>, I sit watching the screen showing the depth of the water beneath us. It is astoundingly shallow, sometimes less than a metre. We are motoring over the Great Sands, the biggest sandbank in the bay, towards the Mud Islands, which are the exposed tip of this massive iceberg of sand. Randall anchors just off shore so that the <b>boat</b> doesn't run aground and we wade through the water to the beach where we are greeted by a harsh choir of squawks and cries. The islands are a haven for all sorts of migratory birds and a mecca for birdwatchers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Standing on a sandy hillock to get a view of the marshy terrain, I can't help feeling I've arrived on a larger, slightly more durable version of the tidal sandbars I used to love as a child. Like those ephemeral banks, the Mud Islands are in a constant state of flux. At the moment, they form an enclosed, womb-like shape, with a central lagoon. Every time Jackson and Randall come out here, they are struck by the dramatic changes - beaches disappearing or widening, the lagoon entrances clogging up.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While the blustery wind makes it hard to savour the desert island atmosphere, the conditions are a reminder of how exposed the place is to the elements, especially the powerful forces of the Rip. Jackson points to a small, jutting outcrop of phosphate rock at the end of the beach that is the anchor point for the islands' shifting sands. Low-lying coast saltbush and hollyhock help secure the dunes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As we head back towards Queenscliff, I ask Randall about the ever-shifting sands of the bay and the role human intervention - in the form of dredging and blasting - has played. He says he tries not to take sides on this politically sensitive subject, preferring to show people what is happening and let them make up their own minds.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ten years ago, a proposal was made by a consortium called the Eco Island Task Force, to use the silt from the constant dredging of the bay and the Yarra to build a series of islands in Port Phillip Bay for residential use, with a range of homes for all budgets. But with rising sea levels from global warming, it is unlikely that such a scheme will ever be realised.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As we leave the islands in our wake, it strikes me that the fantasy of building an island is another version of the dream of remaking ourselves, a bit like Joe's redemption on the fort. Islands call out to us because we feel an affinity with them. Unlike a continent or mainland, they are discrete entities, symbols of our solitary, atomised selves. Or, perhaps, of what we would like to be: self-contained, knowable, defendable. But as they recede into the distance behind us, those small outcrops of rock and sand dwarfed by the vast expanse of the bay present a more disturbing image: our little life rounded with a sleep.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Thaw in relations drives downgrade of Iran travel warning</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daniel Flitton   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>330 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia has just downgraded its travel warning for Iran - potentially putting a trip to the Islamic Republic back on itineraries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australians had been told to "reconsider their need" to travel to Iran, but the warning has now been lowered to "exercise a high degree of caution".</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The decision will be seen as a further sign of warming ties between the West and Iran after the landmark nuclear bargain struck this year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coalition government is also keen to convince Tehran to accept the return of thousands of Iranian <b>asylum</b> seekers who travelled by <b>boat</b> to Australia but are considered unlikely to be granted <b>refugee</b> status.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Foreign Minister Julie Bishop made a rare visit to Iran in April in a bid to strike a deal on the return of failed <b>asylum</b> seekers, and also agreed to share sensitive intelligence on the fight against <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> extremists in neighbouring Iraq and Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor had been critical of dealing with Iran, and of reports in June the travel advice to the country could be lowered.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The official travel advice from the Foreign Affairs department was changed on Monday and still cautions Australians in Iran not to travel to border areas with Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A spokeswoman said the lowering of the level of advice reflected the official assessment of the current safety and security environment in Iran.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"As with all travel, we recommend Australians subscribe to the country travel advice, register their travel, and purchase appropriate travel insurance," the spokeswoman said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Ongoing regional tensions" had meant people were officially counselled to reconsider travelling to Iran since 2012, the second-highest level after "do not travel".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tourists are urged to reconsider travel to Saudi Arabia, and not to visit Iraq, Syria or Yemen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Campbell Fuller, from the <span class="companylink">Insurance Council of Australia</span>, said the lower travel warning was unlikely to have any impact on travel insurance.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>EMPATHY</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MICHAEL ROBOTHAM - Michael Robotham is a best-selling international crime writer. His latest, Close Your Eyes (Hachette) came out in August.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>443 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AFR Summer</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The German doctor and psychotherapist Alfred Adler once described empathy as "seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another".</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Empathy is not the same as sympathy. When we sympathise with someone we "feel as you do" but not "we know how you feel".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pity and compassion are also different. Pity causes us distress and discomfort, but we're not necessarily engaged in someone else's fate. And compassion means we do something positive, but not necessarily with any understanding of what a person has endured.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yes, there is a degree of guesswork in empathising. Most of us will never know what it's like to have been born into a <b>refugee</b> camp in the Sudan or to have IS soldiers take over our village, rape our daughters and turn our sons into soldiers. We will never know what it's like to flee persecution and board a leaky <b>boat</b> and cross an ocean, seeking safety and a better life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We see pictures of drowned children, blown-up bodies or starving refugees, and these elicit sorrow and sympathy and hopefully compassion, but not necessarily empathy. And without it, we can never fully understand what others have endured.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some people argue that empathy is a good virtue, but a poor moral guide because often the scale of the task is too great and we get scared off. We cannot save all of the refugees, so why even try? How do we decide? Isn't it cruel to make such choices?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Either that or we are too easily manipulated. When people are asked about whether a desperately sick child should be allowed to jump the queue ahead of other very sick children, the usual response is no. But when they are shown photographs and told the little girl's name, they change their minds and believe she should be treated first. Empathy triumphs over fairness.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But we should not be scared by empathy. Yes, the task can sometimes be huge, but I'm always reminded of the story of the old man walking along a beach who comes across a young boy picking up stranded starfish and carrying them back to the ocean.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The man says, "There must be tens of thousands of starfish washed up on this beach, dying in the sun. You can't possibly make a difference." The boy smiles and throws another starfish back into the sea, saying, "It made a difference to that one."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Speak softly, and carry a big fluffy koala</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Kelsey Munro  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1131 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A s Joe Hockey packs his bags for Washington, some of our cuddlier ambassadors are coming home. With respect to outgoing US ambassador Kim Beazley, I'm not talking about him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Chan, Idalia, Paddle, and Pellita are koalas from a zoo in Brisbane that have been living at Singapore Zoo since May, dozing in a climate-controlled enclosure in the Australia Zone. (They have their own blog: for koalas, they type pretty well and are adept at product placement.) An impressive 680,000 visitors have seen these "icons of endemic Australian wildlife", or about 100,000 a month, the zoo's Natt Haniff told me, which far exceeded expectations.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Koala diplomacy is modelled on China's panda diplomacy - everyone remembers Xiao Xiao and Fei Fei at Taronga in 1988, right? - and it's easy to be snooty about it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In historical efforts at cultivating soft power - Australia's public image overseas - we've leaned pretty heavily on wildlife (DFAT has reportedly produced a 600-page koala diplomacy manual). It's hard not to see the koalas as another outing in the line of dumbed-down Paul Hogan-inspired Australiana kitsch we've been flogging to the world for decades: g'arn maaate, c'mon down unda!</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Left mostly to the tourism authority, the minds who brought us shrimps, barbies, Lara Bingle, and the new federal Treasurer - and occasionally outsourced to the grimmer svengalis of the Immigration department (whose video of General Angus Campbell declaring "There is NO WAY you will ever make Australia home" won hearts and minds across Asia last year) - Australia's outward facing has been haphazard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's not just about marketing. Tourism, education, attracting global talent, even our ability to sway the argument in international forums - these all benefit from a considered approach to soft power.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hard power is simple to quantify, and - if you can afford it - easy to buy: guns, subs, tanks, planes. But soft power, the ability to exert influence without using guns or money, is more nebulous: pull rather than push, a sort of notional national charisma that is equal parts image and behaviour, smarts and marketing, culture and landscape. And it matters to Australia and other smaller countries, because if you can't bully or buy your way in the world, your best shot at getting your way is if people like you.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Australia is underperforming in its soft power capabilities," says former AusAid worker and ANU researcher Danielle Cave. "How can we get beyond the stereotypes of koalas and beautiful beaches and tell a more sophisticated and comprehensive story about what modern Australia looks like?"</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She's right. Koalas. Beaches. Barbecues. Where's the messaging that Australia is a successful, multicultural, safe, educated, vibrant democracy; the 12th biggest economy in the world; the home of the world's oldest living culture; of Cate Blanchett and Hugh Jackman but also <span class="companylink">Atlassian</span> and Canva; of the inventors of WiFi, the black box and Gardasil?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Everything we have at the moment is accidental, not strategic, and usually there's a whole lot of countervailing stuff happening at once," says Dr Susan Harris-Rimmer, a public diplomacy expert from ANU. "You've got this great tourism thing that no one has thought about in relation to the immigration policies. They counteract each other." Sure, we might lock up <b>boat</b> arrivals on Pacific atolls, but basically we're pretty laid back.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The education sector has been a top export earner for Australia, and luring top students from Asia is a huge benefit. But flare-ups of Hansonite politics and <b>asylum</b> seeker policies don't help. The murders of Indian students in 2009 fed into that worst possible storyline about Australia as a racist nation, and visa applications by Indian students halved in late 2009. John Denton, former diplomat and CEO of law firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth, with vast experience in second-track or non-government diplomacy, comments that Indonesian elites prefer to educate their children in the US now, preferring Stanford, Columbia and Harvard. "A generation ago those same Indonesians would go to ANU and Monash."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the other hand, a key part of soft power, defined by the man who coined it, Joseph Nye, is a country's ability to sway arguments on the international stage through advocacy and ideas. On that measure we've done pretty well, says Fergus Hanson from the <span class="companylink">Brookings Institution</span>. He cites Australia's contributions to the settlement of the Cambodian conflict, a global ban on chemical weapons, the creation of <span class="companylink">APEC</span>, the G20 and more recently in pushing the US for a more robust response to <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No one is suggesting we ditch the submarine fleet to deploy a team of crack debaters. But it's a no-brainer that boosting resources for DFAT would make a big difference to Australia's soft power. Even the outgoing head of DFAT Peter Varghese has acknowledged that Australia has an image problem in its own region: "a soft power deficit," as he put it. We have not one permanent cultural mission overseas, our foreign aid has been slashed, and the department has borne the brunt of budget cuts. In October, Beazley issued a plea for better resourcing: "We do foreign affairs on the cheap," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That's another reason soft power is key: "The reality is with limited hard power tools... using collaborative mechanisms and different relationships is a way of achieving similar impact with a different cost base," says Denton.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But there are encouraging signs: Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull present a formidable front to the world: charm, smarts, complete sentences - leaders who move us beyond Crocodile Dundee and the long shadow of White Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They also seem to grasp the potential of digital diplomacy better than their predecessors - the foreign minister is of course the only person over 14 to be fluent in emoji.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cave points to the New Colombo plan, a new sports diplomacy policy and a fashion diplomacy program as signs the government is taking soft power seriously. Initiatives that tell a story of creativity, fair play and cosmopolitanism that is so different to the beer, barbies and beaches stuff - crucial in a world where Australia is competing for talent with everyone else.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But as Harris-Rimmer points out, spruiking the koalas doesn't hurt. They're rare, cute, and popular in Asia, and keeping them in fresh gum leaves is a complex task which builds trust between Australia and the host nation. And maybe, one day, some of the kids who saw Paddle and co in Singapore will be tempted to come and build the next <span class="companylink">Atlassian</span> here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kelsey Munro is a Herald journalist.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>FINE START, DANGER AHEAD</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Paul Kelly Editor-at-large   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a few days, Malcolm Turnbull will mark 100 days in the top job. So far, the grand experiment is holding</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In his first 100 days Malcolm Turnbull has transformed the economic narrative, boosted confidence and projected opportunity — yet the ugly challenges still lie ahead for a country living beyond its means and mired in a dysfunctional political system.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull has made a brilliant start. He seems a natural Prime Minister, with his near permanent smile, a relaxed authority, a barrister’s technique at the dispatch box and an entrepreneur’s spirit on future possibilities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He is playing with the minds of his opponents and keeping internal opposition in check with his soaring poll ratings.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He has won the first stage of a most difficult transition: coming to the prime ministership through political assassination. At the equivalent 100 days in 2010, Julia Gillard’s hopes for an enduringly successful transition were in ruins. Indeed, Turnbull’s success is deceptive. So far, he has made a difficult job look easy. Is he too clever? The risk is that Turnbull himself may be deceived.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His extended honeymoon has reached the Christmas season. But this week the dreamy optimism was mugged by reality. Turnbull confronts forces that can destroy him, notably the poisoned Australian polity that finished Tony ­Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The mid-year budget review revealed a $26 billion deficit deterioration, a step down in economic growth, a forecast increase in debt to 18.5 per cent of gross domestic product constituting a burden in its own right, and revived political hostility to the exceedingly modest spending cuts proposed to offset new spending since the budget, a reminder of the obstructionism that plagued the Abbott government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For all Turnbull’s skills, he cannot wish away the permanent problems that haunt any Australian government today: a budget where revenues cannot sustain living standards, the improbable task of winning broad-based support for a tax reform package, and a hazardous Senate unwilling to face the fiscal challenge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first 100 days provide a decisive signal about how Turnbull will govern. His focus will be on growth, jobs and opportunities; tackling the budget deficit will be an incremental project over time, as Scott Morrison said this week; don’t expect vast and unpopular spending cuts; don’t expect any GST-led tax package unless the states come on board and, because this is improbable, expect more modest tax reforms.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull is unlikely to grant Bill Shorten his “get out of jail” ticket by making himself a political punching bag with GST changes that lack broad-based support. Turnbull hankers for a message of stable and competent government. He is aware of the paradox: the economy is performing reasonably while the budget is in big trouble.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Expect Turnbull to define his government around economic opportunity rather than budget difficulty, though he and the Treasurer will still stress the magnitude of the budget task.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I am sure there is an important dividend for political competence and that the public and the country expect governments to govern,” Turnbull told the author soon after his ascension. He’s right. But stable government depends on the ability to navigate current problems. The issue for Turnbull is whether he realises or squanders the immense opportunity he has created in the first 100 days. The test, in essence, is whether he possesses the judgment and courage required for the times.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Every big decision lies ahead. This is not to diminish the 100-day list, notably the embrace of the Harper competition policy reforms, the innovation package, the repositioning in social security and education, and the refinement of the climate change strategy in the context of the Paris conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull is astute in harnessing the immense public goodwill towards him. People want him to succeed. They hunger for a different, better government. Turnbull holds out this hope and the public has responded. His positivism, so far, involves a subtle exploitation of the public’s anti-Abbott sentiment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is folly, however, to miss the power reality at work. Turnbull’s 54-44 victory over Abbott on September 14 was driven by ruthless Liberal Party self-interest. The Liberals did not give their hearts to Turnbull. The Coalition parties do not love Malcolm. It was a cold-hearted transaction based on the survival instinct.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull’s job is to secure the Coalition’s first-term re-election. Next year he must finish that supreme task: much of an anxious party wants an early 2016 election while Turnbull is strong, Labor is weak, the honeymoon still glows and a possible convincing victory is at hand.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull’s preference is to govern, document his competence as PM and go to the polls around October. That is Labor’s preference, too. There is no sign, so far, of Turnbull preparing for a March poll. Yet there is no evidence the option has been ruled out. Summer is time for rumination. If he finishes January sitting on a 54-46 per cent lead, Turnbull will face an internal drumbeat for a poll.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull’s relaxed style disguises the extent to which his prime ministership is a grand experiment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 100 days ethos shows Turnbull as a different sort of leader. He is a businessman in politics, a dubious lineage. His instincts are progressive, not conservative, yet he leads a majority conservative party. He hails from the most sparkling waters of the emerald city, far from the forgotten people of Menzian Liberal folklore. His career is littered across Sydney’s power structures with dealings involving the famous Labor names of Gough Whitlam and Neville Wran, and in the 1990s he collaborated with Paul Keating on the great republic quest.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There has never been a Liberal PM from such a mould.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The advantage is that Turnbull can sway votes across traditional boundaries. The progressive media has given him a soft ride. Malcolm can reach into the middle ground and pull votes that Abbott was losing. It is a plus, providing Turnbull can retain the conservative base vote. He must be strong in the homeland.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull constitutes the greatest personal metamorphosis seen in the office of prime minister since Bob Hawke. The make-or-break test for Turnbull, like Hawke, will reside in character. Hawke went from wild drunk to astute statesman. Turnbull, with his pre-politics history of menace, polarisation, fear and awe, now speaks to the nation as a man of unity, compassion and vision.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The transformation is gobsmacking and prompts the question: what is his genuine character? Turnbull says he is an improved person. He confides that “hatred corrodes the hater” and says he has discovered that in life the path to happiness is to be positive. He talks with an air of the convert. The aggression that made him famous for decades seems ­repressed. His colleagues wait and watch.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Turnbull-John Howard connection has become a talking point among Liberal insiders. Howard was Abbott’s patron and wanted him to succeed. Yet he helped persuade Turnbull to stay in politics after he lost the leadership, urged Abbott to elevate Turnbull to treasurer earlier this year — an option Abbott repudiated as naive — and backed Turnbull when it became clear the party had lost confidence in Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These days Turnbull is in close contact with Howard while Abbott is somewhat distant. Turnbull often references the Howard government as a model in its internal decision-making that he aspires to emulate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is the backdrop to the most serious political task Turnbull faces: keeping the Liberals united and the Coalition on track. The first 100 days have seen tremors from the conservative wing and from Abbott, its vanquished standard bearer. If such tremors are apparent when Turnbull commands 53-54 per cent of the vote, what is the prospect when his ratings slump to normality?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott is laying down philosophical markers or tests for Turnbull. The conservatives, while diminished, are making clear what they expect from a Liberal leader: resolution on national security, firmness in discussing the problem with Islam, no major concessions on climate change, a tough line on <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats, and fairness on the same-sex marriage plebiscite including guarantees for religious freedom.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This package constitutes part of the bargain Turnbull needs to honour as the price for internal unity. For much of the party these markers are seen as defining elements of Liberal Party success arising from the Howard era.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some of the media commentary about Turnbull has been bizarre with ludicrous suggestions that he would reverse major policy on issues from climate change to <b>boat</b> arrivals. Turnbull is a Liberal. He served in the Abbott cabinet. His challenge to Abbott was devoid of any defining policy difference. His first loyalty is to the Liberal Party. He cannot succeed if he acts as an interloper rather than a loyalist.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This raises the problematic test of relations with the Nationals. The alarm siren has sounded. Effective Coalition relations have been the hallmark of every successful Liberal leader since the war, witness, Robert Menzies, Malcolm Fraser and Howard. Abbott over six years as leader handed the Coalition effectively.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Most of the Nationals are suspicious of Turnbull. He has farm interests but is not one of them. Trouble with the Nationals was a catalyst for the 2009 crisis that saw Turnbull lose his leadership the first time round.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull had a decisive victory when the Queensland state executive voted 14-12 to reject former cabinet minister Ian Macfarlane’s bid to switch from the Liberals to the Nationals. This was a political flashpoint. The fact that the Nationals leadership entertained secret talks with Macfarlane for some weeks without Turnbull’s knowledge is a situation hard to imagine occurring under Howard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With Nationals leader Warren Truss likely to stand down early next year, the Coalition parties face the prospect of having two new leaders in the one year. There is already concern being expressed among the Liberals about a Turnbull-Barnaby Joyce government. How would this look and would it work?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In his first 100 days Turnbull has offered change, perhaps decisive change, in the conduct of politics. He says that in an age of disruption governments must be agile and unembarrassed about ditching ideas and policies that don’t work. He says he won’t be trapped into the “rule in/rule out” culture on which the media thrives. He wants a more adaptive government better attuned to a culture of change, less rigid and more responsive.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He is correct on every count, the question being whether these ideas can actually take hold.Malcolm is still sailing in smooth waters. The real test of his political skill and character comes when the rough weather arrives, as it must.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Refugee</b> lives changed one wave at a time</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Bellinda Kontominas   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>291 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The men taking part in this learn to surf school at Bondi Beach have every reason to fear the ocean. Each made the dangerous journey to Australia by <b>boat</b>, and for many, the emotional scars are still fresh.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Surfing Without Borders began as a pilot program in June after Sandra Oehman, a case manager for Settlement Services International, decided to take her <b>refugee</b> clients on an excursion to the beach.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Surfing had helped her settle into Australia after moving here from Finland four years ago and she knew her clients would benefit from the sport. "For me surfing was part of the Australian culture and something you wanted to try. If I had concerns or worries, just by going in the water it made me feel better straight away."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first time she took the men out surfing their reactions were "amazing".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They all came to Australia by <b>boat</b> and to some of them the ocean might be a bit scary. Most of them love swimming and being in the water but ... by doing this ... they got that feeling back of being confident in the water as well."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The group surfs at Bondi Beach every second Thursday, followed by a barbecue on the beach and the chance to meet locals. Lessons have been donated by Bondi surf school, Let's Go Surfing, which teaches the practical elements of surfing and basic water safety skills.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Owner Brenda Miley says her company's philosophy is "changing lives one wave at a time", so being involved in the program was a perfect fit. She says surfing is the ideal sport to help new immigrants immerse themselves in Australian culture.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Michael Gordon   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>234 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Almost two years after an <b>asylum</b> seeker lost an eye and suffered severe facial injuries during a riot at the Manus Island detention centre, his claim for damages for pain and suffering has been settled.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Supreme Court Justice John Dixon was told during a brief hearing on Friday that the man's claim against the Australian Government and security provider G4S had been "resolved in principle".</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Iranian Reza Barati was killed and more than 60 other <b>asylum</b> seekers were injured when locals, many of them employed as security guards, broke into the centre in February last year after two days of protests.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>asylum</b> seeker who lost an eye, referred to only as RN, was one of several who suffered serious injuries. Another was shot in the buttocks and another had his throat cut.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When the court action began last year, law firm Maurice Blackburn said the man was seeking damages for pain and suffering and compensation for medical costs associated with his injuries, including the care of his prosthetic eye. Lawyer Jane McDermott said at the time the man was struck in the face with a rock while seeking refuge from the violence. RN was moved to Manus after arriving at Christmas Island by <b>boat</b>. After sustaining the injuries, he was moved to Villawood, Sydney, and is now in community detention.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>VIOLENT VIOLET VISIONS</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Christopher Allen   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1813 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Richard Mosse: The Enclave <span class="companylink">National Gallery of Victoria</span>. Until February 16.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are many places in the world that are worth visiting — places with a wonderful history, fascinating monuments, a vibrant living culture, friendly people, and good food and wine. On the other hand, there are places like parts of sub-Saharan Africa where you never want to go unless you happen to be involved in mining, arms dealing or the humanitarian struggle against endemic poverty and disease.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These last scourges have been exacerbated by the incompetence and corruption of many of the local governments, whose kleptocratic excesses are usually in direct proportion to the desperate poverty of their unhappy citizens. Meanwhile, already impoverished countries are racked with constant fighting between war lords, criminal gangs, militias, revolutionaries and most recently Islamic extremists who have set a standard of savagery only recently equalled by <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> in the Middle East.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The so-called Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the worst of these hellholes. Its history began badly in colonial times, when it was for a time the personal possession of King Leopold II of Belgium (1885-1908), until the cruelty and injustice of its administrators was exposed and forced the Belgian government to take the territory over as a direct colony (1908-60). My father visited during the last decade of colonial rule and recalled stout Belgians in suits perspiring over the heavy cuisine they served in the heat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Joseph Conrad’s famous novel Heart of Darkness (1899) was set in the period when the royal fiefdom was known as the Congo Free State; the country has a history of misnomers. Conrad had direct experience of the country and people, as well as of the colonial maladministration, having, like his protagonist Marlow, sailed a steamer up the Congo River in 1890.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Perhaps because of its combination of social and political acuity with an ultimately bleak vision of the absurd, Heart of Darkness proved a singularly resonant allegory for the 20th century and inspired in particular Francis Ford Coppola’s film Apocalypse Now (1979), in which the story was translated to Vietnam.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Well over a generation later and back in the Congo, Conrad’s story is part of the inspiration for Richard Mosse’s The Enclave, a film work originally made for the Venice Biennale in 2013 and now acquired by the <span class="companylink">National Gallery of Victoria</span>. A well-known passage in the book is directly recalled at one point when a series of bombs go off as the camera pans across impassive mountains shrouded in mist, but Conrad’s spirit is present in many other scenes as well, particularly wherever human agency and even human wickedness appear dwarfed by the indifference of nature.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mosse’s film is set in the midst of the latest phase of the horror of the Congo, the endless fighting between government troops, local militias and rebels. The recent history of the region, with wars between ethnic groups, military mutinies and the inevitable involvement of neighbouring states jostling for power and influence, is too complicated to summarise easily and too senseless to be worth the attempt. Suffice it to say there are no good guys, and the death count since 1998 amounts to an almost unbelievable 5.4 million people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kurtz’s last words in Conrad’s book — another oracle for the 20th century — are well-known: “The horror! The horror!” They also could stand as the epigraph to Mosse’s work, although he is well aware of the impossibility of conveying anything like the enormity of the real situation. The work does succeed, however, in conveying a memorable impression of social and political breakdown, perhaps all the more effectively for avoiding explicit and sensationalist violence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Most immediately striking is the surreal and disturbing colouring of the film, dominated by lurid pinks and violets. This is the consequence of shooting on infra-red 16mm film, later transferred to high-definition video; the choice was motivated in the first instance by the military associations of infra-red film, used for night vision and to detect camouflaged objects.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But as well as the range of meanings evoked metonymically, the red palette of the film has a direct metaphoric expressiveness in its own right: it feels overwhelmingly like a nightmare world, as though it we were in a post-apocalyptic science fiction film.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indeed, it would have been difficult to achieve the same effect of unrelenting menace if all the pink trees and grass had been their proper green. Many of the natural settings are inherently beautiful, and there are occasional glimpses of the grandeur of nature against which this story of human squalor and misery is played out; but the veil of red cast over everything makes it impossible to forget that human beings have alienated themselves from any communion with this natural beauty.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another factor that helps to convey the experience of tension and confusion is the presentation of the film on six separate screens, not symmetrically placed all around us, as we might expect, but hung almost at random and at oblique angles to one another in the space. We are presented with different images on the various screens, while some are blank and occasionally the film splutters to a stop as through the spool had run out. As for what we see on the screens, images run on a loop of 39 minutes and 25 seconds, without a clear beginning or end or any unified narrative thread. We see soldiers and paramilitaries in various uniforms, many of them very young and soon to be dead, murdered by other young men almost identical to themselves except belonging to some tribe, ethnic group, political or religious group or gang.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The soldiers are walking through paths in the grass or guarding roads in the middle of nowhere — another Conradian image of futility. Very young men hold very big guns and look around, alert but as though in a daze with little sense of the utter irrationality or the personal danger of their situation. At one point a group of soldiers gathers on a steel bridge over a river and takes up positions with guns pointed downstream, even though the violently flowing water makes it very hard to imagine that they are waiting for an enemy <b>boat</b> to make its way up towards them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is a bizarre vignette in which an older man, one who must have survived many brushes with death and thus has a more realistic apprehension of the risks, is seen performing some kind of voodoo ritual with a spear and other bits and pieces, sprinkling water with a bunch of grass, and a crucial moment — perhaps for the benefit of the camera — making the gesture of cutting a throat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Death is ubiquitous in a place where more than 300,000 have been killed every year on the statistics already mentioned. Bodies are seen lying on the road where they have just been shot, or in villages and elsewhere. Passers-by look at them with desultory curiosity, sometimes lifting up the tarp that has been thrown over them to look at the faces.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">People seem utterly desensitised, less moved than we would be by animals killed on the side of the road. There seems to be little empathy, sorrow or mourning, and indeed it is hard as spectators even to feel that these scenes are pitiful. The overwhelming impression, before this level of dehumanised violence, is simply that it is contemptible and vile. How are we meant to feel sympathy for killers when their turn comes to be killed?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The desensitisation extends to children; after an attack on a village in which we feel we are about to witness some gruesome murder or mutilation — but of course this is not shown — a little girl is seen nonchalantly walking around dead bodies and even acting up for the camera.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is a scene of some kind of entertainment in a community hall. A band is on stage, but we don’t hear whatever it is they are playing because the soundtrack continues to be an oppressive mechanical drone with a tinnitus-like ringing. Then there is an acrobatic act, in which several young men leap through a flaming hoop or execute backflips.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Finally a self-conscious young woman who presumably thinks of herself as a model comes up on stage, although for what reason remains unclear. Perhaps just being a model was her contribution to proceedings, over which a sense of threat hangs, partly because of some rather sinister men who sit on the stage, partly because of the soundtrack whose harsh texture of noise implies we have not left the war zone.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is footage of a <b>refugee</b> camp, a miserable collection of huts made of sticks gathered from an almost treeless landscape and roofed with tarpaulins, which gives an idea of the appalling living conditions of those displaced by war. But the only scene that really engages our sympathy is when a group of people gather around a rickety wooden hut, lift it off its foundations and try to carry it away and up a small hill. The wretched structure rattles and shakes, boards coming loose, and the purpose of the effort remains unclear.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Do they want to use it as a schoolroom or perhaps as a church? The episode is matched, on other screens, by a burial, so perhaps it is the latter, but there are few signs of religious practice or of any kind of cultural life. We assume that most of these people are illiterate and their level of awareness of what is going on, of what is happening to them and why, must be very limited.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under these circumstances, the effort to move the house seems more symbolic than anything else, representing the only positive collective action we witness. It recalls Gericault’s choice, in the Raft of the Medusa, to paint the moment at which the survivors come together in their efforts to attract the distant rescue ship: after the utter breakdown of civilised life that has taken place, a tentative renewal of the social bond between human beings in the common quest for survival.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ultimately, though, the film reminds us that survival is not assured. We seem to glimpse a sign with a gorilla — perhaps alerting us to the presence and protected status of animals surely endangered by constant war. And there is a memorable moment when an elephant crosses the road in the distance.But there are a couple of passages in which the camera stands back from the human violence and contemplates the extraordinary beauty of the lake and mountains. The pro­cesses of nature and of organic life persist; they are completely indifferent to our fates, and will regenerate and continue even if humans destroy themselves in their own wickedness and folly.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>ngavic : National Gallery of Victoria</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpov : Poverty | gcat : Political/General News | gcom : Society/Community | gsoc : Social Issues</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>belg : Belgium | victor : Victoria (Australia) | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | austr : Australia | benluxz : Benelux Countries | eecz : European Union Countries | eurz : Europe | weurz : Western Europe</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020151218ebcj0000p</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020151215ebcg0001v" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Asylum</b> costs spark $2bn blowout</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>JARED OWENS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>502 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IMMIGRATION</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Surging costs in the immigration detention network and an ­increase in the estimated cost of resettling 12,000 refugees from the Middle East have contributed to a blowout of $2 billion in the management of Australia’s <b>asylum</b> caseload.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Support for <b>asylum</b>-seekers who arrived by <b>boat</b> is expected to increase by $588 million over four years, amid delays in processing claims and updated estimates about where the <b>asylum</b>-seekers will be housed. Australia’s domestic immigration detention network will receive $213.3m to pay for insurance premiums, charter flights, improved security screenings and making Christmas Island suitable for “high-risk detainees” such as foreign criminals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A further $499.7m has been ­allocated to manage the cohort of about 30,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers who arrived primarily under Labor and have been refused permanent visas by the Coalition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Those people now receive ­either temporary protection visas, which expire at regular intervals, or safe haven enterprise visas, which hold out the eventual prospect of permanent residency for those who refuse welfare benefits.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tony Abbott’s decision to ­accept 12,000 Syrian refugees, which Scott Morrison last week anticipated would cost between $600m and $700m, is now projected to cost $909m over four years. The projected spending ­includes $93m for education and training, $61.2m for healthcare and $1.3m for oversight by ASIO.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The budget update reveals an additional $342.1m to resettle refugees transferred to Nauru, Cambodia and Manus Island and repatriate <b>asylum</b>-seekers whose claims are rejected.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Richard Marles, the opposition immigration spokesman, blamed the additional costs on the government’s “shambolic” contracts with those countries. “The lack of a proper third-country settlement agreement has resulted in offshore processing cost blowouts,” he said. “Spending more than $40m on shambolic agreements like settling four ­people in Cambodia is hardly ­viable or value for taxpayer dollars.” Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the overruns were “the manifestation of the problem we inherited from Labor. The bulk of those who have arrived illegally by <b>boat</b> remain to be processed, which will not only take years, but cost us dearly in real budget terms.” An extra $12.4m will be used to support eligible <b>asylum</b>-seekers who arrived by plane — most commonly Chinese and Indian nationals — while their claims are processed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Treasurer, interviewed on Macquarie Radio on Monday last week, said he expected the special intake would cost the budget between $600m and $700m.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 12,000 are in addition to the existing humanitarian program of 13,750 per year, increasing to 18,750 in 2018-19.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sally Rugg, of activist group GetUp!, suggested saving money by “shutting down the exorbit­antly expensive offshore detention camps”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton said the government would save $110m annually by stopping the boats and closing detention centres.“Offshore detention is expensive but it’s much cheaper than reopening our borders and allowing tens of thousands of people to come by <b>boat</b> again which resulted in an $11bn blowout by Labor.”</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020151215ebcg0001v</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020151215ebcg0000k" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Locked in limbo, desperate to rebuild lives torn in two</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CHIP LE GRAND   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>401 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Majid Rezai and Nayran Tabei twice lost everything.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For the past three years, they have been waiting to learn whether Australia will give them a chance to rebuild.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Having docked on Christmas Island in October 2012, crammed into an Indonesian fishing <b>boat</b> with 60 other <b>asylum</b>-seekers, the couple’s claim for protection visas should be on a “fast track’’ promised a year ago by the federal government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead, like most of the 24,000-odd people who arrived by <b>boat</b> in the final year of the Gillard government, they have heard nothing of their fate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Their three sons remain with family in Tehran. Their nine-year-old daughter Alnour, who lives in Melbourne and thinks of herself as Australian, fears the day when she could be ordered to live somewhere else.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For Majid and Nayran, the hardest thing about the limbo years has been the denial of work rights.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nayran is Syrian-born, a chef by training and entrepreneurial by spirit. She has worked since she was 15 and says she feels ashamed to accept handouts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Tehran, she ran a successful wedding catering business before local authorities objected on religious grounds to brides and grooms meeting under the single roof and slapped a red padlock on her door. With the turn of a key, their business was gone.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Majid is an Iranian computer engineer who worked for many years as an English teacher.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With his wife and young family, they moved from Tehran to Damascus, just before war arrived in Syria. In 2010, the cafe they owned and operated, and their home, was bombed by Sunni rebels.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I lost my belongings, my life, two times,’’ Majid says from their small rental house in Braybrook, a suburb in Melbourne’s industrial west.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Let me create it, let me build it a third time. I love it here. I am trying to be positive.’’ In June, Nayran and Majid were finally extended work rights. Nayran now works as an interpreter, does causal childcare shifts and is setting up a catering enterprise. Majid has registered a handyman business.Majid will never forget the trip across the Indian Ocean, jammed against an exhaust pipe, sucking in diesel fumes for three hellish days. Until his claim for <b>refugee</b> status is decided, he won’t know if it was worth it.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | iran : Iran | tehran : Tehran | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | gulfstz : Persian Gulf Region | meastz : Middle East | wasiaz : Western Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020151215ebcg0000k</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020151215ebcg0000j" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Asylum</b> ‘fast track’ barely moving</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CHIP LE GRAND, EXCLUSIVE   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>692 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A year since the federal government overhauled its processing of <b>boat</b> arrivals with a promise to clear the backlog of about 30,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers waiting to have their claims assessed, only eight people have been referred to the authority established to review their cases.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The trickle of cases before the Immigration Assessment Authority, a body to which all failed applications for protection visas are automatically referred, suggests the so-called “fast track’’ processing stream is already clogged and raises fresh doubts about the government’s ambitious target to clear the caseload by 2018.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Figures provided by the ­Department of Immigration and Border Protection show that claims by about 6000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers who arrived by <b>boat</b> prior to the Gillard government’s reintroduction of offshore processing have been assessed by the ­department and 1732 finalised.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of the claims finalised, 355 have been granted temporary protection visas. The Australian can reveal that despite the high rate of unsuccessful claims, only eight have been ­referred to the Immigration ­Assessment Authority. Twelve months since its enabling legislation was proclaimed, the IAA has made a mere three decisions, all involving one family.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The IAA was established in April but sat idle without a case to review for six months. It has six ­reviewers on staff. It is understood that <span class="companylink">the Administrative Appeals Tribunal</span>, the judicial body which houses the IAA, has delayed hiring more reviewers due to the lack of work.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton maintains the government is “on track’’ to clear the backlog of <b>asylum</b>-seekers who arrived by <b>boat</b> following Labor’s relaxation of border policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor immigration spokesman Richard Marles said the government’s revamp of migration laws had created an administrative mess. “The figures that have been publicly released raise more questions than they answer,’’ he said. “This was meant to be a fast-track process. In fact it seems to have people crawling through wet cement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The consequence of that is detrimental to the mental health of <b>asylum</b>-seekers and not in the national interest.’’ Until this year, <b>asylum</b>-seekers waiting to have their claims ­assessed were unable to legally work and were forced to rely on <span class="companylink">Centrelink</span> payments to cover food and rent. Some of the 30,000 have now been given work rights.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum</b> Seeker Resource Centre chief executive Kon Karapanagiotidis said nearly all the 6000 claims assessed by the department were “legacy’’ cases that should have been finalised years ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This cohort of about 6000 people includes <b>boat</b> arrivals whose claims for protection visas were left at various stages before the ­department, the <b>Refugee</b> Review Tribunal, the Federal Circuit Court and the Federal Court when the system was frozen by the incoming federal government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A further 24,000-odd people — those who arrived by <b>boat</b> between August 13, 2012, and the end of 2013 — will be dealt with ­according to the fast-track rules. Mr Karapanagiotidis questioned how this caseload could be fairly managed within three years. “You have got a policy that has been placed on the department which is completely untenable,’’ he said. “We have grave and serious concerns about this new model.’’ The reforms restrict legal funding to only the most vulnerable claimants. This has left <b>asylum</b>-seekers attempting to lodge complex application forms and meet stringent identity and probity checks without legal representation. The result is more work for the department officials responsible for assessing their claims.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The reintroduction of temporary protection visas in place of permanent visas means that any claims assessed now will come back for renewal in three years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It is like painting the Harbour Bridge,’’ said Mary-Anne Kenny, a migration agent and Murdoch University associate professor of law. “This will not be as efficient as they hope it will be and what may be in jeopardy is the fairness of the system. I think the denial of legal assistance is a big problem.’’In explaining the new regime, then immigration minister Scott Morrison told parliament the changes were intended to bring all 30,000 cases towards “timely immigration outcomes’’ and prevent <b>asylum</b>-seekers exploiting weaknesses in the system.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>IN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>iimmigr : Immigration/Naturalization Services | i835 : Legal Services | ibcs : Business/Consumer Services</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020151215ebcg0000j</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020151215ebcg00021" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Drug trafficker was haunted by mother's death and brother's murder</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Christopher Knaus   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>460 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A003</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Drug trafficker was haunted by mother's death and brother's murder</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Christopher Knaus</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Huy Huu Lee's life was scarred by the unsolved murder of his younger brother, his mother's death, Communist persecution, and appalling treatment as a child <b>refugee</b> in Hong Kong by the time he began dealing cannabis in Canberra. His traumatic backstory has been told during ACT Supreme Court</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">sentencing proceedings over the past month, as a judge sought to understand the circumstances of his use and trafficking of cannabis in recent years. Lee, 45, was born in Communist North Vietnam and he was targeted due to his family's links to the French and the south. While still a juvenile, Lee was able to escape to Hong Kong by <b>boat</b>, and spent a lengthy stretch</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">in a <b>refugee</b> camp, where he was again treated poorly. His father's cousin, noted human rights activist and migration agent Marion Le, told the ACT Supreme Court last month that many North Vietnamese were kept in cages in Hong Kong <b>refugee</b> camps, which she described as some of the worst in the world at the time. Eventually, Lee was able to get to</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia in 1989. But more trauma awaited him. His brother was killed in 1996 after someone forced him to ingest heroin until he overdosed. The killer was never found, something Ms Le told the court last month had an "absolutely devastating" impact on everyone in the family, particularly Lee. Ms Le was visibly distressed as she spoke of the unsolved murder.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Look at the effect on me, and I'm not his brother and this was his little brother, and we still don't know [what happened]," she said. In 2013, Lee's mother died, an incident which again affected him greatly, bringing back bad memories of his brother. It was during the year of his mother's death that Lee, who at that stage was smoking cannabis daily, trafficked significant amounts</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">the drug. The ACT Supreme Court heard the trafficking must have been partially motivated by profit. Lee sold more than five kilograms, which the court estimated to be worth $36,000, to one man, who went on to sell some of the drug to others. Justice John Burns found on Tuesday that Lee had good prospects for rehabilitation. He had no criminal history, and pleaded guilty during his</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">trial earlier this year, a move that had some utilitarian value and showed some remorse. Justice Burns imposed a sentence of 13 months' imprisonment, to be served by six months of weekend detention. The sentence will then be suspended.Lee will undergo drug and alcohol and grief counselling.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RF</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>73920703</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gdrug : Drug Trafficking/Dealing | gmurd : Murder/Manslaughter | gorgnz : Organized Crime | gtraff : Trafficking/Smuggling | gcat : Political/General News | gcrim : Crime/Courts</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>canbrr : Canberra | apacz : Asia Pacific | auscap : Australian Capital Territory | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | austr : Australia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020151215ebcg00021</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-HERSUN0020151213ebce0008i" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>OpEd</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Anthem’s neglected verse really makes me patriotic</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ALICE CLARKE   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>579 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I’M not normally patriotic. Patriotism seems to be reserved exclusively for extremists, weird Americans and the deeply racist.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Australia we have a culture that I am proud to be a part of, or at least we used to, one that celebrated the achievements of its people but didn’t go over the top with the whole hand-on-heart thing when we sang the national anthem.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In fact, I was kind of proud that, as a nation, we didn’t know all the words to our anthem. We focused on what was important and acknowledged our country’s faults as well as celebrating our achievements, instead of loving the institution of Australia at all costs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But now, more than ever, it’s important that we look to the second verse of our national anthem; that’s the part that matters. And that’s the part the extremists who are draping themselves in our flag and spouting hate in Australia’s name need to be paying attention to: Beneath our radiant Southern Cross We’ll toil with hearts and hands; To make this Commonwealth of ours Renowned of all the lands; For those who’ve come across the seas We’ve boundless plains to share; With courage let us all combine To Advance Australia Fair.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first verse about being young and free and having land that is rich in resources that we should allow overseas investors to mine in exchange for minimal taxes is great and all, but the second verse is what this country is built on. We work hard, and modern Australia is built on the backs of refugees who came here when they needed help and became members of our communities, sharing their culture and culinary skills with us.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We’re 10 years on from the Cronulla riots, yet White Australia looks ready for another violent outburst, forgetting that their ancestors came here by <b>boat</b> first.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And we do have boundless plains to share. We’re one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We’re nowhere near being full, despite the charming slogans racists put on the bumper stickers on their utes, next to the Southern Cross.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Germany, a country you may remember from the last time there was a religious-based migrant crisis, is taking in one million refugees this year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Germany has 609 people per square mile, as opposed to Australia’s seven. We’re only taking in 25,750 in the next year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Those living the stereotype, concerned that these “bloody foreigners” will take their jobs while simultaneously draining the country of welfare, will be reassured to know that that’s not really a thing. At all.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum</b> seekers who are allowed in on the barbaric Temporary Protection Visa aren’t allowed to get jobs to begin with, and the eligible ones can only get a maximum of 89 per cent of the welfare afforded to full citizens. Once someone has been accepted as a full <b>refugee</b>, they can get jobs and be entitled to welfare like any other Australian citizen. But, according to the <span class="companylink">Australian Bureau of Statistics</span>, refugees are the most entrepreneurial migrants we have, and are twice as likely to start businesses that employ people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Far from taking our jobs, they create more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So, maybe it’s worth taking a moment to remember that second verse. ALICE CLARKE IS A FREELANCE JOURNALIST@Alicedkc</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Pierre Savary
in Lille, France   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>460 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A007</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A work by British graffiti artist Banksy at the entrance to the Calais <b>refugee</b> camp in France. Photo: AP New Banksy murals champion migrants' cause</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Pierre Savary in Lille, France</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">British graffiti artist Banksy's mural of late Apple founder Steve Jobs as a <b>refugee</b> on a wall in the Calais migrant camp and two other Banksy works in other parts of the city will be protected, local authorities say. The Banksy mural depicts a life- size Jobs carrying a shoulder bag and an early model Apple computer on a wall at the entrance to the Calais camp, surrounded by migrants' tents. Pictures of the murals are posted on</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Banksy's website. Authorities in Calais, northern France, said on Saturday they planned to shield the murals with glass or transparent plastic panels. "We found out about the presence of this artwork on Friday and have decided to protect it, so it is not damaged," a Calais city spokeswoman said. Calais mayor Natacha Bouchart told local newspaper Nord Littoral that the artwork was an opportunity for Calais. "It is very good and it has a</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">message," she said. Banksy, whose identity has never been confirmed, said in a rare statement to British media that Apple only existed because American authorities allowed a young man from Homs in Syria to enter the US. "We're often led to believe migration is a drain on the country's resources but Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian migrant," Banksy said. The artist is famous for painting ironic murals in unexpected places. Some 6000 migrants fleeing war and poverty in Africa and the Middle</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">East live in a so-called "jungle" of camps in Calais and are trying repeatedly to enter Britain by jumping onto lorries, hiding on trains and walking through the tunnel in the hope of better lives there than in continental Europe. In a second Banksy mural by the Calais beach, a child looks towards Britain through a telescope, with a vulture perched on the telescope. A third work in the city, close to the immigration office, reproduces a black and white version of The Raft of the Medusa, a famous painting of</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">shipwreck survivors by 19th century French painter Theodore Gericault. It shows survivors on a raft desperately waving to catch the attention of what looks like a modern yacht on the horizon. The Banksy website carries a photo of the mural with the caption: "We're not all in the same <b>boat</b>." In September, the artist said on his website that timber and fixtures from his temporary "Dismaland" theme park in western England would be sent to build shelters for migrants in Calais.Reuters</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>ARE THESE THE 500 BEST ROCK SONGS?</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3138 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>78</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The call went out to Aussie rock lovers – give Triple M your 10 favourite songs of all time to help compile a top 500 list. The poll was released this week – and reading through the list, played on Triple M in reverse order from 500 to 1, it became obvious we really love music from the 1970s and ’80s, guitar music still rules, and while Britain and America will always dominate, we have a real soft spot for our home-grown legends. Rock on!</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">500 David Bowie Let’s Dance 499 THE Beatles Something 498 George Thorogood One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer 497 Cars Shake It Up 496 Red Hot Chili Peppers Breaking The Girl 495 Bryan Adams Cuts Like A Knife 494 Bob Seger Turn The Page 493 Peter Gabriel Sledgehammer 492 THEWho Pinball Wizard 491 Crowded House Weather With You 490 Midnight Oil Don’t Wanna Be The One 489 Meatloaf I’d Do Anything For Love 488 Ac/Dc Shoot To Thrill 487 Diesel Tip Of My Tongue 486 Billy Joel It’s Still Rock And Roll To Me 485 Steppenwolf Magic Carpet Ride 484 Tom Petty The Waiting 483 Doobie Brothers Long Train Running 482 Hoodoo Gurus Miss Freelove ‘69 481 Elton John Bennie And The Jets 480 Joe Cocker Unchain My Heart 479 Santana & Rob Thomas Smooth 478 Paul Mccartney & Wings Band On The Run 477 Simple Minds Love Song 476 R.e.m. Man On The Moon 475 Led Zeppelin Heartbreaker 474 Blondie Atomic 473 Blue Oyster Cult(Don’t Fear) The Reaper 472 Creedence Clearwater Revival Run Through The Jungle 471 Poison Every Rose Has Its Thorn 470 Phil Collins Sussudio 469 Alice Cooper Poison 468 Supertramp Bloody Well Right 467 THE BEATLES Back In The U.S.S.R.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">466 Screaming Jets Shivers 465 Steely Dan Reelin’ In The Years 464 Simple Minds Glittering Prize 463 Bruce SpringsteenBecause The Night 462 Jimmy Barnes Driving Wheels 461 Toto Rosanna 460 Neil Young Hey Hey, My My 459 Lenny Kravitz American Woman 458 Ste vie Nicks And Tom Petty Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around 457 Mid night Oil Hercules 456 Car s Good Times Roll 455 Red Hot Chili Peppers Scar Tissue 454 Led Zeppelin Good Times Bad Times 453 Pretenders Back On The Chain Gang 452 Joe Cocker The Letter 451 Roxy Music Love Is The Drug 450 Pink Floyd Speak To Me/Breathe 449 Semisonic Closing Time 448 Genesis That’s All 447 John Mellencamp Cherry Bomb 446 Zz Top Tush 445 Pat Benatar Love Is A Battlefield 444 Eagles One Of These Nights 443 Hoodoo Gurus 1000 Miles Away 442 John Lennon Nobody Told Me 441 Cold Chisel Rising Sun 440 Supertramp Dreamer 439 Simple Minds Waterfront 438 Pearl Jam Last Kiss 437 Led Zeppelin Living Loving Maid (She’s Just A Woman) 436 Talking HeadsTake Me To The River (live) 435 Rolling Stones Tumblin’ Dice 434 Jimmy Barnes Ride The Night Away 433 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Learning To Fly 432 Queen Tie Your Mother Down 431 Split Enz Six Months In A Leaky <b>Boat</b> 430 Screaming Jets Helping Hand 429 John Mellencamp Rain On The Scarecrow 428 Joe Cocker She Came In Through The Bathroom Window 427 Simple Minds Promised You A Miracle 426 DeepPurple Hush 425 THE POLICEWrapped Around Your Finger 424 Bruce Springsteen Badlands 423 Bryan Adams Heaven 422 U2 Even Better Than The Real Thing 421 THE DOORS Break On Through 420 Icehouse Hey Little Girl 419 FleetwoodMac Landslide 418 Clash London Calling 417 T-Rex Get It On (Bang A Gong) 416 Hunters & Collectors Do You See What I See 415 Eric Clapton I Shot The Sheriff 414 Foo Fighters Times Like These 413 Talking Heads Road To Nowhere 412 Alice Cooper No More Mr Nice Guy 411 Pat Benatar Hit Me With Your Best Shot 410 Meatloaf Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad 409 Midnight Oil Blue Sky Mine 408 Doobie Brothers Listen To The Music 407 Inxs Kick 406 Yes Owner Of A Lonely Heart 405 Rolling Stones Jumpin’ Jack Flash 404 Red Hot Chili Peppers Soul To Squeeze 403 Europe The Final Countdown 402 Supertramp Take The Long Way Home 401 Santana She’s Not There 400 Queen Radio Ga Ga 399 Led Zeppelin Misty Mountain Hop 398 Bon Jovi Keep The Faith 397 Jackson Browne Running On Empty 396 Tom Petty Runnin’ Down A Dream 395 Limp Bizkit Behind Blue Eyes 394 Cheap Trick Surrender 393 Stevie Nicks Edge Of Seventeen 392 Midnight Oil Forgotten Years 391 David Lee Roth Just Like Paradise 390 T-Rex Hot Love 389 Cold Chisel You Got Nothing I Want 388 Eagles Life In The Fast Lane 387 Eric Clapton Tears In Heaven 386 Cars My Best Friend’s Girl 385 THE POLICE Can’t Stand Losing You 384 Ac/Dc Who Made Who 383 Rolling Stones Honky Tonk Women 382 U2 New Year’s Day 381 Foreigner Feels Like The First Time 380 Bruce Springsteen Hungry Heart 379 Paul Kelly Before Too Long 378 David Bowie Suffragette City 377 Baby THE ANIMALS One Word 376 Alice Cooper Only Women Bleed 375 Jimmy Barnes No Second Prize 374 Electric LightOrchestraRockaria 373 Midnight Oil Short Memory 372 THE DOORS L.A. Woman 371 Crowded House Something So Strong 370 Dragon April Sun In Cuba 369 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Don’t Come Around Here No More 368 Bruce Springsteen Cover Me 367 Elton John Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting 366 Flowers Walls 365 Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze 364 Faith No More Easy 363 Inxs Listen Like Thieves 362 Queen A Kind Of Magic 361 Cheap Trick I Want You To Want Me 360 Aerosmith Love In An Elevator 359 Eagles Take It Easy 358 U2 Mysterious Ways 357 Dire Straits Down To The Waterline 356 THE POLICE De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da 355 THE BEATLES Get Back 354 Phil Collins (Billy) Don’t Lose My Number 353 THE WHO You Better You Bet 352 Supertramp Breakfast In America 351 R.e.m. The End Of The World As We Know It 350 THE ANGELS Shadow Boxer 349 Noiseworks No Lies 348 Red Hot Chili Peppers My Friends 347 Heart Magic Man 346 Inxs Kiss The Dirt (Falling Down) 345 Split Enz I See Red 344 Cream Sunshine Of Your Love 343 Greg Kihn Band The Breakup Song 342 Joe Cocker Feeling Alright 341 Bon Jovi Bad Medicine 340 Bryan Adams Run To You 339 David Bowie Jean Genie 338 Blondie Call Me 337 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers <b>Refugee</b> 336 Queen I Want It All 335 Black Sabbath Changes 334 Talking Heads Once In A Lifetime 333 Lenny Kravitz Fly Away 332 Dire Straits Walk Of Life 331 Inxs I Send A Message 330 Deep Purple Black Night 329 Creedence Clearwater RevivAL Have You Ever Seen The Rain 328 Bruce Springsteen Glory Days 327 Phil Collins Against All Odds 326 Cold Chisel Standing On The Outside 325 John Lennon Instant Karma 324 Iggy Pop & KatePierson Candy 323 Flowers Can’t Help Myself 322 Doobie Brothers China Grove 321 THE POLICE So Lonely 320 THE DOORS Love Her Madly 319 Jon Bon Jovi Blaze Of Glory 318 Midnight Oil U.S. Forces 317 Queen Killer Queen 316 Inxs Devil Inside 315 Noiseworks Touch 314 David Bowie Modern Love 313 Supertramp The Logical Song 312 The Killers Somebody Told Me 311 Warren Zevon Werewolves Of London 310 Jimi Hendrix Foxy Lady 309 Mondo Rock Come Said The Boy 308 Elton John Rocket Man 307 U2 Sunday Bloody Sunday 306 THE POLICE Every Little Thing She Does 305 Rick Springfield Jessie’s Girl 304 Rolling Stones Start Me Up 303 Queen Fat Bottomed Girls 302 Billy Joel You May Be Right 301 Neil YoungThe Needle And The Damage Done 300 Bon Jovi You Give Love A Bad Name 299 Van Morrison Brown Eyed Girl 298 THE ANGELS We Gotta Get Out Of This Place 297 Supertramp Give A Little Bit 296 Live I Alone 295 Divinyls Pleasure And Pain 294 Steve MillerBand Jet Airliner 293 Bryan Ferry Let’s Stick Together 292 Midnight Oil Dead Heart 291 Elvis Costello Watching The Detectives 290Lemonheads Mrs Robinson 289 Foreigner Hot Blooded 288 Split Enz I Got You 287 Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs Most People I Know (Think That I’m Crazy) 286 Inxs New Sensation 285 Green Day Wake Me Up When September Ends 284 Van Halen You Really Got Me 283 John Mellencamp I Need A Lover 282 Queen Crazy Little Thing Called Love 281 David Bowie Rebel Rebel 280 Nirvana Heart Shaped Box 279 Clash Rock The Casbah 278 Led Zeppelin D’yer Maker 277 Billy Idol Rebel Yell 276 Dire Straits Lady Writer 275 Kiss Sure Know Something 274 THE POLICE Message In A Bottle 273 U2 Desire 272 Zz Top Sharp Dressed Man 271 Paul Mccartney & Wings Live And Let Die 270 Lenny Kravitz Are You Gonna Go My Way 269 Rolling Stones Miss You 268 Pat Benatar All Fired Up 267 THE WHO My Generation 266 Flowers We Can Get Together 265 Jj Cale Cocaine 264 THE POLICE Don’t Stand So Close To Me 263 Nirvana All Apologies 262 Australian Crawl Errol 261 Kiss Rock And Roll All Nite 260 Midnight Oil Power & The Passion 259 Queen You’re My Best Friend 258 Hoodoo Gurus What’s My Scene 257 Ac/Dc High Voltage 256 Noiseworks Take Me Back 255 Thin Lizzy The Boys Are Back In Town 254 Everclear Santa Monica 253 Zz Top Gimme All Your Lovin’ 252 Dire Straits Telegraph Road 251 U2 Pride (In The Name Of Love) 250 Rolling Stones It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll (But I Like It) 249 Guns N Roses Patience 248 Foreigner Cold As Ice 247 Models Out Of Mind Out Of Sight 246 John Lennon Stand By Me 245 Paul Kelly To Her Door 244 Bob Seger Hollywood Nights 243 Inxs Original Sin 242 Meatloaf You Took The Words Right Out My Mouth 241 Van Halen Why Can’t This Be Love 240 Steve MillerBAND The Joker 239 Red Hot Chili Peppers Otherside 238 AC/DC T.N.T.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">237 John Mellencamp Hurts So Good 236 Pink Floyd Run Like Hell 235 Men At Work Who Can It Be Now?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">234 Green Day Boulevard Of Broken Dreams 233 Kiss I Was Made For Loving You 232 Queen I Want To Break Free 231 Creedence Clearwater RevivALI Heard It Through The Grapevine 230 Goanna Solid Rock 229 THE DOORS Light My Fire 228 The Knack My Sharona 227 Talking Heads Psycho Killer (Live) 226 Free All Right Now 225 U2 I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For 224 ZZ Top Legs 223 Joe Walsh Life’s Been Good 222 Gangajang Sounds Of Then 221 THE ANGELS Take A Long Line 220 Smashing Pumpkins Tonight Tonight 219 Bachman Turner Overdrive You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet 218 Melissa Etheridge Bring Me Some Water 217 THE WHO Who Are You 216 Paul Kelly Dumb Things 215 Elton John Candle In The Wind 214 Def Leppard Pour Some Sugar On Me 213 Pink Floyd On The Turning Away 212 THE POLICE Roxanne 211 Divinyls Boys In Town 210 Foo Fighters Learn To Fly 209 Bruce Springsteen Thunder Road 208 Iron Maiden Run To The Hills 207 Collective SOUL Shine 206 PinkFloyd Hey You 205 Guns N Roses Welcome To The Jungle 204 Daddy Cool Eagle Rock 203 Van Halen Hot For Teacher 202 Santana Black Magic Woman 201 Hunters & Collectors When The River Runs Dry 200 David Bowie Ziggy Stardust 199 Whitesnake Here I Go Again 198 Peter Gabriel Solsbury Hill 197 Smashing Pumpkins 1979 196 Alice Cooper School’s Out 195 Def Leppard Love Bites 194 Ram Jam Black Betty 193 Hoodoo Gurus Like Wow-Wipeout 192 PinkFloyd Have A Cigar 191 Powderfinger On My Mind 190 THE WHO Baba O’Riley 189 Talking Heads Burning Down The House (Live) 188 Ac/Dc Jailbreak 187 Choirboys Run To Paradise 186 THE BEATLES Come Together 185 Tom Petty Free Fallin’ 184 Led Zeppelin Ramble On 183 Oasis Don’t Look Back In Anger 182 THE Clash Should I Stay Or Should I Go 181 Harry Chapin Cat’s In The Cradle 180 Aerosmith Walk This Way 179 Pretenders Brass In Pocket 178 Billy Idol White Wedding 177 Joe WalshRocky Mountain Way 176 Inxs What You Need 175 Neil Young Heart Of Gold 174 Screaming Jets Better 173 Cold Chisel Choir Girl 172 Queen Another One Bites The Dust 171 America A Horse With No Name 170 Pearl Jam Black 169 Golden Earring Radar Love 168 Aerosmith Janie’s Got A Gun 167 THE BEATLES Revolution 166 Hunters & Collectors Holy Grail 165 Lynyrd Skynyrd Free Bird 164 Violent Femmes Blister In The Sun 163 Bad Company Feel Like Makin’ Love 162 The Killers Mr. Brightside 161 Elton John Your Song 160 Inxs Burn For You 159 Heart Barracuda 158 Van Halen Panama 157 Lou Reed Walk On The Wild Side 156 Rolling Stones Brown Sugar 155 Simple Minds Alive And Kicking 154 Creedence Clearwater RevivAL Fortunate Son 153 Live Lightning Crashes 152 Manfred Mann’s Earth Band Blinded By The Light 151 George Thorogood Bad To The Bone 150 Queen Somebody To Love 149 Jimi Hendrix Hey Joe 148 R.e.m. Losing My Religion 147 Pink Floyd Learning To Fly 146 Ac/Dc Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap 145 Cheap Trick The Flame 144 THE DOORS Roadhouse Blues 143 Kings Of Leon Sex On Fire 142 Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 141 Inxs Don’t Change 140 Rolling Stones You Can’t Always Get What You Want 139 Nirvana About A Girl 138 Beach Boys Good Vibrations 137 Icehouse Great Southern Land 136 THE WHO Won’t Get Fooled Again 135 Queen & David Bowie Under Pressure 134 Fleetwood Mac Don’t Stop 133 THE BEATLES Here Comes The Sun 132 Meatloaf Paradise By The Dashboard Light 131 Green Day When I Come Around 130 Crowded House Better Be Home Soon 129 Dragon Are You Old Enough 128 Powderfinger My Happiness 127 Zz Top La Grange 126 Eagles Take It To The Limit 125 Foo Fighters Best Of You 124 Joe CockerWith A Little Help From My Friends 123 Don Henley The Boys Of Summer 122 Gerry Rafferty Baker Street 121 Simple Minds Don’t You (Forget About Me) 120 FleetwoodMac Dreams 119 Cold Chisel Cheap Wine 118 Steppenwolf Born To Be Wild 117 The Verve Bittersweet Symphony 116 PinkFloyd Another Brick In The Wall 115 10Cc Dreadlock Holiday 114 Pink Floyd Shine On You Crazy Diamond 113 Bruce Springsteen Dancing In The Dark 112 Gary Moore Still Got The Blues 111 Fleetwood Mac Go Your Own Way 110 Kinks Lola 109 THE BEATLES Let It Be 108 U2 Beautiful Day 107 David Bowie Space Oddity 106 Cold Chisel Bow River 105 Green Day Time Of Your Life 104 Bob Dylan Hurricane 103 Australian Crawl The Boys Light Up 102 Rolling Stones Paint It Black 101 Oasis Wonderwall 100 Neil Young Old Man 99 Joan Jett & The BlackheartS I Love Rock N Roll 98 Rod Stewart Maggie May 97 Men At Work Down Under 96 Queen We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions 95 Billy Joel Piano Man 94 Toto Africa 93 Led Zeppelin Immigrant Song 92 Inxs Need You Tonight/Mediate 91 Fleetwood Mac The Chain 90 Van Halen Jump 89 THE BEATLES A Day In The Life 88 Ac/Dc It’s A Long Way To The Top 87 Guns N Roses Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door 86 Elton John Tiny Dancer 85 David Bowie Changes 84 Boston More Than A Feeling 83 Fleetwood Mac Rhiannon 82 Bruce Springsteen Born In The U.S.A.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">81 Aerosmith Dream On 80 Hunters & Collectors Throw Your Arms Around Me 79 THE ANGELS No Secrets 78 THE BEATLES While My Guitar Gently Weeps 77 Australian Crawl Reckless (Don’t You Be So...) 76 Led Zeppelin Black Dog 75 Pearl Jam Better Man 74 Pink Floyd Us And Them 73 Dragon Rain 72 Procol Harum A Whiter Shade Of Pale 71 Rolling Stones (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction 70 THE POLICE Every Breath You Take 69 Lynyrd Skynyrd Sweet Home Alabama 68 ColdChisel Forever Now 67 Guns N Roses Paradise City 66 Fleetwood Mac Tusk 65 Metallica Nothing Else Matters 64 THE ANIMALS House Of The Rising Sun 63 David Bowie Ashes To Ashes 62 Led Zeppelin Whole Lotta Love 61 Nirvana Come As You Are 60 Crowded House Don’t Dream It’s Over 59 U2 Where The Streets Have No Name 58 Rolling Stones Sympathy For The Devil 57 Bob Dylan Like A Rolling Stone 56 Meatloaf Bat Out Of Hell 55 Red Hot Chili Peppers Under The Bridge 54 Stevie Wright Evie (Parts 1, 2 & 3) 53 Midnight Oil Beds Are Burning 52 Pink Floyd Brain Damage/Eclipse 51 Dragon April Sun In Cuba 50 Dire Straits Brothers In Arms 49 Derek & THE Dominos Layla 48 Pearl Jam Daughter 47 Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter 46 Cold Chisel When The War Is Over 45 Ac/Dc Highway To Hell 44 Steve Earle Copperhead Road 43 Pink Floyd Time 42 John Mellencamp Jack & Diane 41 David Bowie Heroes 40 Bryan Adams Summer Of ‘69 39 Led Zeppelin Kashmir 38 U2 One 37 Deep Purple Smoke On The Water 36 Bon Jovi Wanted Dead Or Alive 35 Bruce Springsteen Born To Run 34 Dire Straits Romeo & Juliet 33 Foo Fighters Everlong 32 Pink Floyd Money 31 Jimmy Barnes Working Class Man 30 Bruce Springsteen I’m On Fire 29 Black Sabbath Paranoid 28 Cold Chisel Flame Trees 27 Jimi Hendrix All Along The Watchtower 26 Cat Stevens Father And Son 25 Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit 24 Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb 23 Dire Straits Money For Nothing 22 Rolling Stones Angie 21 Bon Jovi Living On A Prayer 20 Phil Collins In The Air Tonight 19 ANGELS Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again 18 THE Eagles Hotel California 17 Pearl JAM Alive 16 THE BEATLES Hey Jude 15 U2 With Or Without You 14 Dire Straits Sultans Of Swing 13 Ac/Dc Thunderstruck 12 Inxs Never Tear Us Apart 11 Don Mclean American Pie 10 Guns N RosesNovember Rain 9 Led Zeppelin Rock And Roll 8 Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here 7 AC/DC You Shook Me All Night Long 6 John LennonImagine 5 Guns N RosesSweet Child O’ Mine 4 QueenBohemian Rhapsody 3 Ac/Dc Back In Black 2 Cold Chisel Khe Sahn1 Led ZeppelinStairway To Heaven</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Georgina Connery   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>548 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A004</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From left, Companion House director Kathy Ragless, University of Canberra deputy vice- chancellor for education Nicholas Klomp and Dickson College principal Craig Edwards. Photo: GRAHAM TIDY <b>Refugee</b> students get a fairer go with fees By Georgina Connery</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They fled conflict zones, arrived as unaccompanied minors by <b>boat</b> to Australia and without family have mastered English and made it through high school. Despite coming so far, <b>asylum</b> seekers and newly settled refugees don't qualify for Commonwealth study subsidies and are faced with the prospect of paying upfront international student fees for higher education. However, a new deal struck between Companion House and the <span class="companylink">University of Canberra</span> will lift the financial burden by offering discounted fees for five students. University of Canberra deputy vice-chancellor Professor Nicholas Klomp said the scholarship meant international fees would be waived and five recipient students would instead pay 10 per cent less than domestic student course fees. "It is thousands and thousands of dollars less, so it really brings it down to the vaguely more affordable for these students," he said. "If they are suitably qualified to study then it would be unjust not to offer them that opportunity, so I am glad we are going that extra mile for students who find</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">themselves in a really difficult situation." Director of Companion House Kathy Ragless said each student recipient would still need to pay $8190 a year - the equivalent to what a domestic student would pay in HECS. "We have to fundraise to cover that gap," she said. "We will have to raise $40,000 for the group each year until they finish their courses." Reasonable access to higher education was a growing concern, particularly as people waited for years on <b>asylum</b> seeker and temporary protection visas while their applications were finalised, she said. "Temporary protection visas have many of the same disadvantages of the <b>asylum</b> seeker visa, for example no Commonwealth subsidy for study," she said. "Those whose protection claims are finalised still don't have the same access to social entitlements as one of us as a permanent resident or citizen of Australia." Dickson College principal Craig Edwards said the soon-to-be graduates were bracing for their ATAR scores and had degree preferences ranging from</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">biomedical science to building and construction management. "One of the five students is predicted to get an ATAR score of above 90 and he will need it to get into physiotherapy, which is his top preference," Mr Edwards said. Executive teacher of the Secondary Introductory English College at Dickson College, Jennifer Lobb, worked with each of the five male <b>asylum</b> seeker student recipients from Afghanistan, Iran and West Burma. She got teary eyed when she heard what the university had committed to. "I'm proud the <span class="companylink">University of Canberra</span> has stepped forward in this way," she said. "After all their hard work and sacrifice to put themselves on equal academic standing with local students, it was tragic to think it was out of reach. "These kids are magic. "They work so hard, as the university will see now they have this foot in the door." Donations to support the five students can be made by contacting Companion House at www.companionhouse.org.au[http://www.companionhouse.org.au]
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>965 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What becomes of the broken-hearted ex-PM? Cast adrift in a sea of self-pity, with nought but an onion and an old pair of Speedos as a sail.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The former prime ministerial powder monkey has been too busy not wrecking, undermining or sniping at every opportunity to see the tide has carried him away. Ah, for the age when Tony Abbott manned the poop deck, spying death cults on the horizon and vowing to release the Kraken on mutineers.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now he's reduced to railing against white-anting, while his stopped <b>boat</b> sinks beneath the waves. Perhaps the navy will toss him one of their orange lifeboats for <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Who's left to lead the Liberal's conservative wing? The ship of fools has somehow settled on Petty Officer Peter Dutton, who's reportedly being considered as a future deputy leader - assuming every other possible candidate goes swimming in the Bermuda Triangle, in a storm, while wearing cement shoes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How low have they sunk to see Dutton as their champion? The former Queensland cop and tuber impersonator is better known as a stand-up comedian, yucking about low-lying Pacific islands being swamped by rising seas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In between gigs, he's been hosting lunch for his incapable seamen, featuring some Chinese grub and a chocolate cake baked by Abbott's "landlady" P-E-T-A Credlin. Over deep-fried dim sims, the hard-right has been building Dutton's internal support network. Dumped former defence minister Kevin Andrews also pushed publicly for the Immigration Minister to be restored to the national security committee of cabinet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That Dutton is their last shot in the locker says much about the state of right-wing conservative politics. Those glowing opinion polls for Malcolm Turnbull have left the nutters lost at sea. They've even tossed overboard their "great white hope" Scott Morrison, presumably for his progressive views on refugees and Sri Lankan samosas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In desperation they've turned to Dutton, despite the fact that he's regularly upchucked on conservative values, not least the rule of law.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Their brave new champion once sought the sole power to strip citizenship from terrorist suspects, without courts "second-guessing" his decisions. Under his watch, Borderfarce officers planned to march their jackboots down the main streets of Melbourne. And a pregnant Somali <b>refugee</b> was rushed by charter jet back to the Nauru detention centre where she was raped, allegedly to avoid due process.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Like Abbott, Dutton likes to see "jihads" in any unfavourable headline. But he's more comfortable paddling in the shallow end of the political pool - with no style, substance nor a three-word slogan to spout.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He's a muddling politician, guilty of over-reach and bumbling bloody-mindedness. The conservative cause is sunk with him as their champion. Time to tow their leaky <b>boat</b> into deep water and see who can swim to shore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The conservatives are on safe ground, at least, in their fear-mongering over potential perverts and paedophiles. No one is safe, it seems, from the deviants lurking on every street corner.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The latest spectre emerged in the leafy Melbourne suburb of Balwyn, where locals objected to a three-storey apartment building on the grounds that "perverted" occupants might spy on kiddies in a playground nearby.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Similar hysteria was recently whipped up on Sydney's northern beaches, when dissenters to a low-cost housing development likened its prospective tenants to paedophiles, bums, drug addicts and deviants.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Such tenants include low-income supermarket workers and young people studying or training as apprentices. But that didn't stem the 800 complaints against the small boarding house, including one from local member Brad Hazzard - who also happens to be NSW Social Housing Minister.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hazzard reckoned the boarding house was "incompatible" with the area, citing concerns including a lack of car parking and the safety risk to school children from extra traffic. Anyone who's had to sell their spleen to pay rent in Sydney should feel confident that Brad's got their back.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fear and loathing loiter at the dark heart of such stoushes. Every lone man near a playground is a perv. Every poor person is a hopeless, beer-swilling bum.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Such fears are typically unfounded and overstated. Occasionally, they're exploited for petty purposes. After all, some of my best friends live in low-cost housing - but the further away from my home the better.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both developments were ultimately approved by authorities, despite the weight of objections. The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal gave the green light to the Balwyn apartments late last month, saying that fear of or resistance to change is not a legitimate concern.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Simply not wanting something in your town is not a [negative] social impact," the tribunal said. Oh well. There goes the neighbourhood.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Never fear, your preferred packs of Tim Tams are safe after Coles agreed to pay more for several varieties of the chocolate biscuit, including Choc Raspberry and the insipid Coconut Cream.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The irony of Coles complaining about an "unjustified" price hike by <span class="companylink">Campbell Arnott's</span> was lost on the supermarket behemoth. This is the same Coles that had to refund millions of dollars to suppliers this year, after the Federal Court found it had misused its bargaining power.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The court found Coles demanded payments to which it was not entitled by threatening harm to suppliers. It also withheld money from suppliers that it had no right to withhold.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Coles' Tim Tam backdown is just desserts for bringing us "freshly baked" bread from Ireland and "spring" apples harvested in autumn. But it will take more than a price hike on Chocolicious bikkies to atone for that tripe by Status Quo.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2742 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The cabinet, the coup and the Queen - SHIRTFRONTED PART 5</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He’s all pose and no pluck, they said of Turnbull. In the end Abbott e’s all pose and no pluck, they said of Turnbull. In the end Abbott and Credlin did all the work for him, writes Peter Hartcher .</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An iron law of leadership challenges is that a candidate plotting to unseat the leader cannot be trusted to do his, or her, own numbers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The aspirant is too hopeful, and the colleagues too artful. The challenger will make a hopelessly optimistic count of his support base.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the February spill motion against Tony Abbott , Malcolm Turnbull was content to let a small group of backbenchers do the numbers. They kept him informed as he quietly weighed his options.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But in the approach to his September challenge, Turnbull threw the rule out and became his own numbers man.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He kept the central list of names - the yes, no and maybe votes - and trusted himself to do the count.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The small huddles of pro-Turnbull backbench zealots had their lists too, but Turnbull trusted his own.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was a sign of his gathering confidence and hardening determination. Abbott and the only adviser he still listened to, Peta Credlin, had persuaded themselves that Turnbull would never challenge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They sometimes described him in private as "another Peter Costello", all pose and no pluck, they decided. They were fascinated by him and frequently speculated about his manoeuvres.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The daily meeting of the government's leadership group, the inner 10 or 12 who set tactics and strategy, was often diverted by their musings on what Turnbull was up to.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They were confident that he was untrustworthy, that he was leaking against Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was out refining his stump speech, his now-familiar ode to optimism: "There's never been a more exciting time to be alive," he told the Brisbane Press Club a month after the February spill.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But he had failed to step forward in the moment of the spill; his periodic tirades delivered in the privacy of the cabinet room seemed like passing storms, sound and fury signifying nothing; and he was not visibly assembling numbers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott and Credlin "were simply delusional", says a member of his cabinet, now a member of Turnbull's. "They didn't want to see what everyone else could see."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What Abbott and Credlin didn't see was that Turnbull didn't need to sign up supporters. The Abbott-Credlin duumvirate was driving them into his arms.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull commonly told colleagues that Abbott's capacity for self-delusion, his lack of comprehension for the feelings of those around him, showed that he was "basically a psychopath".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull had been described by an earlier Liberal leader, Brendan Nelson, as suffering "narcissistic personality disorder".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now it seemed the narcissist was calling the psychopath crazy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott and treasurer Joe Hockey shared a fear of reliving the experience of the Malcolm Fraser administration, a government of missed opportunities. But wasn't their worst fear realised?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some opportunities were firmly seized. The boats were stopped. Despite all the sceptics and despite the harshness, the Abbott government policy was so irrefutably successful that Labor, too, adopted it. It is now bipartisan, national policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Scott Morrison assembled the policy from opposition, in secret, with two others in a purely informal coalition of the can-do.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He worked with a retired general, the take-charge Jim Molan, and the gung-ho Liberal frontbencher and former army captain Stuart Robert.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The secret to their success was that they didn't need to invent any new policy mechanisms.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Paul Keating introduced mandatory detention, John Howard turned back boats, Kevin Rudd introduced the policy that no one arriving by <b>boat</b> would ever be allowed to resettle in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Morrison group decided that the key to success was in how to bring it all together in a decisive central command.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There were too many agencies involved - the Immigration Department, the Navy, Customs, Border Protection, ASIS. The magic ingredient was not the "what" but the "how", they decided.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Create a new agency? No, all the institutional power of Canberra's existing authorities would unify to resist. They needed to mobilise a whole-of-government solution with the existing agencies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They decided to co-opt the resources of all the agencies to the project, but under a unified command with a strong leader. They lit upon the idea of a serving general, reporting to Morrison. Defence assigned General Angus Campbell, to Morrison's delight.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There were policy extras. Strict, sometimes over-strict, secrecy was designed to give the people smugglers zero intelligence. Unsinkable orange life boats were added to stop <b>asylum</b> seekers from sinking their boats to force a rescue at sea. It was ugly but effective.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Morrison's success earned him the admiration of his colleagues and set him on the path to the Treasurer's post.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another standout success of the Abbott term was Australia's hyper-effectiveness under Andrew Robb in pushing forward with market opening, at home and abroad.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Robb had asked Abbott for the Treasury portfolio. But when given Trade and Investment he didn't sulk. He was relentless, even during the months he was suffering painful shingles. He saw his job not just as advancing trade but as something much bigger: "I saw from opposition that fiscal policy and monetary policy" - budget policy and interest rates - "have lost traction as debt piles up and interest rates go towards zero. So where do you go if they're not working and the mining boom is coming to an end?"</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Robb's trade and investment agenda became the de facto economic reform tools of the Abbott era.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He sealed trade deals with all three of Australia's biggest trading partners - South Korea, Japan and China - in staccato. These were adopted by Labor, too. Robb then negotiated the Trans-Pacific Partnership. He's still hoping to clinch a trade deal with India by the end of the year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With these and other, lesser policy successes in mind, Abbott has declared himself content with his record:</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"If I'd been knocked over by a bus on the morning of the coup, I would have gone to the Pearly Gates and given an upbeat assessment. I don't believe we could have done much more or much better than we did. There was an enormous amount of solid achievement."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There were limits and problems but Abbott puts the full blame on factors beyond his control:</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I think it was a very successful government in spite of a feckless Senate, an irresponsible Labor Party, a poisonous media culture and well organised white-anting," he tells <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The independent and minor party crossbenchers in the Senate have a different version. They say the problem was Abbott's government presenting them with harsh and unfair measures which they could not accept, and Abbott's unwillingness to negotiate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott rejects this too: "I'm not sure what more I could have done [with the Senate crossbenchers]". One of them, Nick Xenophon, said Abbott's comments made him "feel genuinely sad because he doesn't get it - his budget policies were built on a non-existent foundation of broken promises, and no community support".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government's fortunes improved somewhat after the February spill.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The budget in May, with generous benefits for small business and no new harsh measures, was given credit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government had been behind by 45 per cent to 55 per cent in an average of all the major polls at the time of the February crisis, according to polling expert John Stirton; it recovered to 48 per cent to 52 over the next five months.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was still behind, but Abbott and Credlin were convinced that they could win an election from this position. That's consistent with the experience of earlier governments, including Howard's.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott's token gestures to party sentiment briefly mollified some. "Everyone really hoped it was going to work after the first spill," a junior minister says. "We all made an effort."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But they realised that the gestures - Credlin's disappearance from public view, regular meetings of his full ministry, dinners with MPs - were empty. Credlin remained in her job and Hockey in his. It was business as usual.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott and Credlin's confidence surged, and the misjudgments soon started to flow unchecked again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott's attempt to ambush his cabinet on citizenship laws. His successful ambush of the entire party with his same-sex marriage gambit. His forlorn effort to defend Bronwyn Bishop's expensive tastes in transport. His distracting "culture war" with the ABC over its Q&A show.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And in the meantime, a damaged Hockey, invariably drawn by cartoonists with an exploded cigar in his mouth, unable to carry an economic program, inflicted further self-harm with his response to people worried about home affordability - "get a good job".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The revival, just a couple of months old, died. The polls reverted. The government was behind 46 to 54 on Stirton's poll average, implying a savage loss of perhaps 30 of the government's 90 seats in the House. The survivors would be going to the opposition benches.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"If he had any decency he'd resign," an exasperated Turnbull said repeatedly to his supporters in Abbott's final weeks. He had decided to challenge, yet still hoped the prize would fall to him effortlessly.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So Turnbull and most of the party were already agitated by the time the final provocation arrived.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In February the lightning bolt that galvanised the spill was Abbott's decision to knight Prince Philip. In September it was a story in The Daily Telegraph musing on Abbott's plans for a cabinet reshuffle to remove "dead wood".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Peta Credlin was widely assumed to be behind the story. Turnbull described it to colleagues as a "Credlin special". Abbott and Credlin told colleagues they had no hand in it. By then it didn't really matter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MPs commonly believed that she leaked against colleagues who were out of favour. "It created a cycle of leak and counter-leak," says a cabinet minister who himself sometimes leaked against Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How can a single newspaper piece be so infuriating as to bring on a challenge to a prime minister? A backbencher explains: "It ticked all the boxes, all the things he'd promised to address, nothing had changed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"One, the prime minister's office is an island, it doesn't consult the party. Two, if you step out of line, Credlin will attack you through the media. Three, it showed the utter lack of any political judgment. Four, it was just the latest in a long line of endless f--- ups."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Any hope of even the possibility of recovery under Abbott evaporated in the despair and anger of a party pushed beyond any point of tolerance. The Telegraph story appeared on the Friday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That very day, Turnbull received the pledges that he was waiting for: "The numbers are coming to me, I've got the numbers," he announced to Julie Bishop that day by phone. His backbench zealots had been recruiting for him, but in the end Abbott and Credlin did the vital work for him. To the end, he didn't need to bargain or plead for votes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In earlier months, Robb had considered standing against Turnbull in the event of a challenge. That would have given the party's conservative faction an alternative that some would have found attractive.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It would have complicated Turnbull's task. But by the time the critical point arrived, Robb had decided not to stand. The government was in crisis and only Turnbull could lead it out, he concluded.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the Turnbull campaign team didn't know that.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To Robb's surprise, two backbenchers told him that he didn't look well and should take a few days off. No one had ever shown such concern for his health, he remarked to a colleague. It was the Friday before the coup.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He later discovered that, a day before that, Christopher Pyne had suggested Credlin give Robb the same message. The Turnbull team was trying to head Robb off, but this only became clear in retrospect.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Monday, as <span class="companylink">Parliament</span> resumed, a number of senior ministers could see the crisis building.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Small groups of backbenchers were talking to ministers, asking them to join the coup.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Abbott's cabinet colleagues knew that the leader was unwitting, despite media reports and warnings from colleagues. He'd persuaded himself he was safe. They feared an impasse and sought a breakthrough.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Tony Abbott 's final day as prime minister, three of his cabinet ministers discussed the idea of going to see him to tell him that his time was at an end.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With Abbott in Adelaide announcing funding for the Northern Connector road project, he brushed aside reporters' questions on the leadership as "insider gossip" and "Canberra games".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The gossip was actually useful intelligence; he had played the Canberra games hard, and he was on the cusp of losing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pyne and George Brandis separately phoned Julie Bishop about going together to see the leader.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bishop decided it had reached the critical point. It would be humiliating for a delegation to call on Abbott. She decided to go alone. She arranged to meet him the minute he returned from Adelaide.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When it finally came, Abbott was genuinely startled. Even after Bishop walked into his office at 11.55am and said:</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"As your deputy, this is a conversation I never wanted to have, but I have to tell you you've lost the backing of the majority of the party room and the majority of the cabinet."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even then Abbott had to ask her whether she thought Turnbull was really going to challenge. Turnbull would take advantage while he had the numbers, she said. "This is really happening," she told him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shocked and angry, he later blamed Morrison and Bishop for failing to warn him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But has any prime minister ever been so starkly warned? After the February spill, his party put him on a six-month probation and told him to get rid of Credlin and his treasurer, Hockey, as a condition of keeping his job.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott ignored the conditions and wished away the consequences.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the event, his final plea to his colleagues revealed the central failure of his prime ministership. In his televised remarks he asked them not to remove a sitting prime minister because "we are not Labor".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A Liberal backbencher, Dan Tehan, had earlier asked Abbott to "give us something to fight for". The idea captured Abbott and he repeated it to others. But he failed to give them anything to fight for. "We are not Labor" is not a compelling cause for a government facing defeat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After defeating him by 54 votes to 44, Turnbull sent Abbott a text message.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No one understands better than I do how you are feeling, wrote Turnbull, an allusion to the fact that Abbott had torn him down in 2009. The subtext: Live by the sword, die by the sword.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull concluded by sending his and Lucy Turnbull 's love to Abbott and his wife, Margie.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Good of you to say so, replied Abbott to his new leader. He also included a barb. Luckily, he told Turnbull, I am surrounded by people who love and respect me regardless of wealth and position. We should catch up some day, Abbott wrote, but better let some water go under the bridge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott found some solace in his trip to London to give the Margaret Thatcher address and mingle with like-minded conservatives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And perhaps solace was on his mind when Australia's most famous monarchist approached Buckingham Palace to request an audience with the Queen during his trip.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If so, he was disappointed. While he'd be the last to appear on Turnbull's list, he had expected to be on the monarch's. Other former Australian prime ministers have been given audiences, after all.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But, citing scheduling constraints, she declined to see him. The Queen's published schedule, however, does not seem much constrained. On the day after Abbott's speech, for instance, she had no appointments all day, only a reception in the evening where she awarded a prize for engineering.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Queen too, it seems, wanted to let some water go under the bridge.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SHIRTFRONTED PART 5</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A n iron law of leadership challenges is that a candidate plotting to unseat the leader cannot be trusted to do his, or her, own numbers. The aspirant is too hopeful, and the colleagues too artful. The challenger will make a hopelessly optimistic count of his support base. In the February spill motion against Tony Abbott , Malcolm Turnbull was content to let a small group of backbenchers do the numbers. They kept him informed as he quietly weighed his options. But in the approach to his September challenge, Turnbull threw</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">the rule out and became his own numbers man. He kept the central list of names - the yes, no and maybe votes ï¿½ and trusted himself to do the count. The small huddles of pro- Turnbull backbench zealots had their lists too, but Turnbull trusted his own. It was a sign of his gathering confidence and hardening determination. Abbott and the only adviser he still listened to, Peta Credlin, had persuaded themselves that Turnbull would never challenge. They sometimes described him in private as "another Peter Costello", all pose and no pluck, they decided. They were fascinated by him and</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">frequently speculated about his manoeuvres. The daily meeting of the government's leadership group, the inner 10 or 12 who set tactics and strategy, was often diverted by their musings on what Turnbull was up to. They were confident that he was untrustworthy, that he was leaking against Abbott. He was out refining his stump speech, his now-familiar ode to optimism: "There's never been a more exciting time to be alive," he told the Brisbane Press Club a month after the February spill. But he had failed to step forward in the moment of the spill; his periodic tirades delivered in the privacy of the cabinet room seemed like passing storms,</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">sound and fury signifying nothing; and he was not visibly assembling numbers. Abbott and Credlin "were simply delusional", says a member of his cabinet, now a member of Turnbull's. "They didn't want to see what everyone else could see." What Abbott and Credlin didn't see was that Turnbull didn't need to sign up supporters. The Abbott-Credlin duumvirate was driving them into his arms. Turnbull commonly told colleagues that Abbott's capacity for self-delusion, his lack of comprehension for the feelings of those around him, showed that he was "basically a psychopath". Turnbull had been described by an earlier Liberal leader, Brendan Nelson, as suffering "narcissistic personality disorder". Now it seemed the narcissist was calling the psychopath crazy. Abbott and treasurer Joe Hockey shared a fear of reliving the experience of the Malcolm Fraser administration, a government of missed opportunities. But wasn't their worst fear realised? Some opportunities were firmly seized. The boats were stopped. Despite all the sceptics and despite the harshness, the Abbott government policy was so irrefutably successful that Labor, too, adopted it. It is now bipartisan, national policy. Scott Morrison assembled the policy from opposition, in secret, with two others in a purely informal coalition of the can-do. He worked with a retired general, the take-charge Jim Molan, and the gung-ho Liberal frontbencher and former army captain Stuart Robert. The secret to their success was that they didn't need to invent any new policy mechanisms. Paul Keating introduced mandatory detention, John Howard turned back boats, Kevin Rudd introduced the policy that no one arriving by <b>boat</b> would ever be allowed to resettle in Australia. The Morrison group decided that the key to success was in how to bring it all together in a decisive central command. There were too many agencies involved - the Immigration Department, the Navy, Customs, Border Protection, ASIS. The magic ingredient was not the "what" but the "how", they decided. Create a new agency? No, all the institutional power of Canberra's existing authorities would unify to resist. They needed to mobilise a whole-of-government solution with the existing agencies. They decided to co-opt the resources of all the agencies to the project, but under a unified command with a strong leader. They lit upon the idea of a serving general, reporting to Morrison. Defence assigned General Angus Campbell, to Morrison's delight.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There were policy extras. Strict, sometimes over-strict, secrecy was designed to give the people smugglers zero intelligence. Unsinkable orange life boats were added to stop <b>asylum</b> seekers from sinking their boats to force a rescue at sea. It was ugly but effective. Morrison's success earned him the admiration of his colleagues and set him on the path to the Treasurer's post.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A nother standout success of the Abbott term was Australia's hyper- effectiveness under Andrew Robb in pushing forward with market opening, at home and abroad. Robb had asked Abbott for the Treasury portfolio. But when given Trade and Investment he didn't sulk. He was relentless, even during the months he was suffering painful shingles. He saw his job not just as advancing trade but as something much bigger: "I saw from opposition that fiscal policy and monetary policy" - budget policy and interest rates - "have lost traction as debt piles up and interest rates go towards zero. So where do you go if they're not working and the mining boom is coming to an end?" Robb's trade and investment agenda became the de facto economic reform tools of the Abbott era. He sealed trade deals with all three of Australia's biggest trading partners - South Korea, Japan and China ï¿½ in staccato. These were adopted by Labor, too. Robb then negotiated the Trans-Pacific Partnership. He's still hoping to clinch a trade deal with India by the end of the year. With these and other, lesser policy successes in mind, Abbott has declared himself content with his record: "If I'd been knocked over by a bus on the morning of the coup, I would have gone to the Pearly Gates and given an upbeat assessment. I don't believe we could have done much more or much better than we did. There was an enormous amount of solid achievement." There were limits and problems but Abbott puts the full blame on factors beyond his control: "I think it was a very successful government in spite of a feckless Senate, an irresponsible Labor Party, a poisonous media culture and well organised white-anting," he tells <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> . The independent and minor party crossbenchers in the Senate have a different version. They say the problem was Abbott's government presenting them with harsh and unfair measures which they could not accept, and Abbott's unwillingness to negotiate. Abbott rejects this too: "I'm not sure what more I could have done [with the Senate crossbenchers]".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of them, Nick Xenophon, said Abbott's comments made him "feel genuinely sad because he doesn't get it - his budget policies were built on a non-existent foundation of broken promises, and no community support". The government's fortunes improved somewhat after the February spill. The budget in May, with generous benefits for small business and no new harsh measures, was given credit. The government had been behind by 45 per cent to 55 per cent in an average of all the major polls at the time of the February crisis, according to polling expert John Stirton; it recovered to 48 per cent to 52 over the next five months. It was still behind, but Abbott and Credlin were convinced that they could win an election from this position. That's consistent with the experience of earlier governments, including Howard's. Abbott's token gestures to party sentiment briefly mollified some. "Everyone really hoped it was going to work after the first spill," a junior minister says. "We all made an effort." But they realised that the gestures ï¿½ Credlin's disappearance from public view, regular meetings of his full ministry, dinners with MPs - were empty. Credlin remained in her job and Hockey in his. It was business as usual. Abbott and Credlin's confidence surged, and the misjudgments soon started to flow unchecked again. Abbott's attempt to ambush his cabinet on citizenship laws. His successful ambush of the entire party with his same-sex marriage gambit. His forlorn effort to defend Bronwyn Bishop's expensive tastes in transport. His distracting "culture war" with the ABC over its Q&A show. And in the meantime, a damaged Hockey, invariably drawn by cartoonists with an exploded cigar in his mouth, unable to carry an economic program, inflicted further self-harm with his response to people worried about home affordability - "get a good job". The revival, just a couple of months old, died. The polls reverted. The government was behind 46 to 54 on Stirton's poll average, implying a savage loss of perhaps 30 of the government's 90 seats in the House. The survivors would be going to the opposition benches. "If he had any decency he'd resign," an exasperated Turnbull said repeatedly to his supporters in Abbott's final weeks. He had decided to challenge, yet still hoped the prize would fall to him effortlessly. So Turnbull and most of the party were already agitated by the time the final provocation arrived. In February the lightning bolt that galvanised the spill was Abbott's decision to knight Prince Philip. In September it was a story in The Daily Telegraph musing on Abbott's plans for a cabinet reshuffle to remove "dead wood". Peta Credlin was widely assumed to be behind the story. Turnbull described it to colleagues as a "Credlin special". Abbott and Credlin told colleagues they had no hand in it. By then it didn't really matter. MPs commonly believed that she leaked against colleagues who were out of favour. "It created a cycle of leak and counter-leak," says a cabinet minister who himself sometimes leaked against Abbott. How can a single newspaper piece be so infuriating as to bring on a challenge to a prime minister? A backbencher explains: "It ticked all the boxes, all the things he'd promised to address, nothing had changed. "One, the prime minister's office is an island, it doesn't consult the party. Two, if you step out of line, Credlin will attack you through the media. Three, it showed the utter lack of any political judgment. Four, it was just the latest in a long line of endless f--- ups." Any hope of even the possibility of recovery under Abbott evaporated in the despair and anger of a party pushed beyond any point of tolerance. The Telegraph story appeared on the Friday. That very day, Turnbull received the pledges that he was waiting for: "The numbers are coming to me, I've got the numbers," he announced to Julie Bishop that day by phone. His backbench zealots had been recruiting for him, but in the end Abbott and Credlin did the vital work for him. To the end, he didn't need to bargain or plead for votes. In earlier months, Robb had considered standing against Turnbull in the event of a challenge. That would have given the party's conservative faction an alternative that</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">some would have found attractive. It would have complicated Turnbull's task. But by the time the critical point arrived, Robb had decided not to stand. The government was in crisis and only Turnbull could lead it out, he concluded. But the Turnbull campaign team didn't know that. To Robb's surprise, two backbenchers told him that he didn't look well and should take a few days off. No one had ever shown such concern for his health, he remarked to a colleague. It was the Friday before the coup. He later discovered that, a day before that, Christopher Pyne had suggested Credlin give Robb the same message. The Turnbull team was trying to head Robb off, but this only became clear in retrospect. By Monday, as <span class="companylink">Parliament</span> resumed, a number of senior ministers could see the crisis building. Small groups of backbenchers were talking to ministers, asking them to join the coup. But Abbott's cabinet colleagues knew that the leader was unwitting, despite media reports and warnings from colleagues. He'd persuaded himself he was safe. They feared an impasse and sought a breakthrough. On Tony Abbott 's final day as prime minister, three of his cabinet ministers discussed the idea of going to see him to tell him that his time was at an end. With Abbott in Adelaide announcing funding for the Northern Connector road project, he brushed aside reporters' questions on the leadership as "insider gossip" and "Canberra games". The gossip was actually useful intelligence; he had played the Canberra games hard, and he was on the cusp of losing. Pyne and George Brandis separately phoned Julie Bishop about going together to see the leader. Bishop decided it had reached the critical point. It would be humiliating for a delegation to call on Abbott. She decided to go alone. She arranged to meet him the minute he returned from Adelaide. When it finally came, Abbott was genuinely startled. Even after Bishop walked into his office at 11.55am and said: "As your deputy, this is a conversation I never wanted to have, but I have to tell you you've lost the backing of the majority of the party room and the majority of the cabinet." Even then Abbott had to ask her whether she thought Turnbull was really going to challenge. Turnbull would take advantage while he had the numbers, she said. "This is really happening," she told him. Shocked and angry, he later blamed Morrison and Bishop for failing to warn him. But has any prime minister ever been so starkly warned? After the February spill, his party put him on a six- month probation and told him to get rid of Credlin and his treasurer, Hockey, as a condition of keeping his job. Abbott ignored the conditions and wished away the consequences. In the event, his final plea to his colleagues revealed the central failure of his prime ministership. In his televised remarks he asked them not to remove a sitting prime minister because "we are not Labor". A Liberal backbencher, Dan Tehan, had earlier asked Abbott to "give us something to fight for". The idea captured Abbott and he repeated it to others. But he failed to give them anything to fight for. "We are not Labor" is not a compelling cause for a government facing defeat. After defeating him by 54 votes to 44, Turnbull sent Abbott a text message. No one understands better than I do how you are feeling, wrote Turnbull, an allusion to the fact that Abbott had torn him down in 2009. The subtext: Live by the sword, die by the sword. Turnbull concluded by sending his and Lucy Turnbull 's love to Abbott and his wife, Margie. Good of you to say so, replied Abbott to his new leader. He also included a barb. Luckily, he told Turnbull, I am surrounded by people who love and respect me regardless of wealth and position. We should catch up some day, Abbott wrote, but better let some water go under the bridge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A bbott found some solace in his trip to London to give the Margaret Thatcher address and mingle with like-minded conservatives. And perhaps solace was on his mind when Australia's most famous monarchist approached Buckingham Palace to request an audience with the Queen during his trip. If so, he was disappointed. While he'd be the last to appear on Turnbull's list, he had expected to be on the monarch's. Other former Australian prime ministers have been given audiences, after all. But, citing scheduling constraints, she declined to see him. The Queen's published schedule, however, does not seem much constrained. On the day after Abbott's speech, for instance, she had no appointments all day, only a reception in the evening where she awarded a prize for engineering. The Queen too, it seems, wanted to let some water go under the bridge.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The cabinet, the coup and the Queen - SHIRTFRONTED - PART 5</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He's all pose and no pluck, they said of Turnbull. In the end Abbott and Credlin did all the work for him, writes Peter Hartcher.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An iron law of leadership challenges is that a candidate plotting to unseat the leader cannot be trusted to do his, or her, own numbers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The aspirant is too hopeful, and the colleagues too artful. The challenger will make a hopelessly optimistic count of his support base.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the February spill motion against Tony Abbott , Malcolm Turnbull was content to let a small group of backbenchers do the numbers. They kept him informed as he quietly weighed his options.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But in the approach to his September challenge, Turnbull threw the rule out and became his own numbers man.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He kept the central list of names - the yes, no and maybe votes - and trusted himself to do the count.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The small huddles of pro-Turnbull backbench zealots had their lists too, but Turnbull trusted his own.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was a sign of his gathering confidence and hardening determination. Abbott and the only adviser he still listened to, Peta Credlin, had persuaded themselves that Turnbull would never challenge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They sometimes described him in private as "another Peter Costello", all pose and no pluck, they decided. They were fascinated by him and frequently speculated about his manoeuvres.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The daily meeting of the government's leadership group, the inner 10 or 12 who set tactics and strategy, was often diverted by their musings on what Turnbull was up to.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They were confident that he was untrustworthy, that he was leaking against Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was out refining his stump speech, his now-familiar ode to optimism: "There's never been a more exciting time to be alive," he told the Brisbane Press Club a month after the February spill.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But he had failed to step forward in the moment of the spill; his periodic tirades delivered in the privacy of the cabinet room seemed like passing storms, sound and fury signifying nothing; and he was not visibly assembling numbers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott and Credlin "were simply delusional", says a member of his cabinet, now a member of Turnbull's. "They didn't want to see what everyone else could see."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What Abbott and Credlin didn't see was that Turnbull didn't need to sign up supporters. The Abbott-Credlin duumvirate was driving them into his arms.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull commonly told colleagues that Abbott's capacity for self-delusion, his lack of comprehension for the feelings of those around him, showed that he was "basically a psychopath".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull had been described by an earlier Liberal leader, Brendan Nelson, as suffering "narcissistic personality disorder". Now it seemed the narcissist was calling the psychopath crazy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott and treasurer Joe Hockey shared a fear of reliving the experience of the Malcolm Fraser administration, a government of missed opportunities. But wasn't their worst fear realised?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some opportunities were firmly seized. The boats were stopped. Despite all the sceptics and despite the harshness, the Abbott government policy was so irrefutably successful that Labor, too, adopted it. It is now bipartisan, national policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Scott Morrison assembled the policy from opposition, in secret, with two others in a purely informal coalition of the can-do.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He worked with a retired general, the take-charge Jim Molan, and the gung-ho Liberal frontbencher and former army captain Stuart Robert.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The secret to their success was that they didn't need to invent any new policy mechanisms.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Paul Keating introduced mandatory detention, John Howard turned back boats, Kevin Rudd introduced the policy that no one arriving by <b>boat</b> would ever be allowed to resettle in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Morrison group decided that the key to success was in how to bring it all together in a decisive central command.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There were too many agencies involved - the Immigration Department, the Navy, Customs, Border Protection, ASIS. The magic ingredient was not the "what" but the "how", they decided.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Create a new agency? No, all the institutional power of Canberra's existing authorities would unify to resist. They needed to mobilise a whole-of-government solution with the existing agencies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They decided to co-opt the resources of all the agencies to the project, but under a unified command with a strong leader. They lit upon the idea of a serving general, reporting to Morrison. Defence assigned General Angus Campbell, to Morrison's delight.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There were policy extras. Strict, sometimes over-strict, secrecy was designed to give the people smugglers zero intelligence. Unsinkable orange life boats were added to stop <b>asylum</b> seekers from sinking their boats to force a rescue at sea. It was ugly but effective.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Morrison's success earned him the admiration of his colleagues and set him on the path to the Treasurer's post.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another standout success of the Abbott term was Australia's hyper-effectiveness under Andrew Robb in pushing forward with market opening, at home and abroad.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Robb had asked Abbott for the Treasury portfolio. But when given Trade and Investment he didn't sulk. He was relentless, even during the months he was suffering painful shingles.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He saw his job not just as advancing trade but as something much bigger: "I saw from opposition that fiscal policy and monetary policy" - budget policy and interest rates - "have lost traction as debt piles up and interest rates go towards zero. So where do you go if they're not working and the mining boom is coming to an end?"</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Robb's trade and investment agenda became the de facto economic reform tools of the Abbott era.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He sealed trade deals with all three of Australia's biggest trading partners - South Korea, Japan and China - in staccato. These were adopted by Labor, too. Robb then negotiated the Trans-Pacific Partnership. He's still hoping to clinch a trade deal with India by the end of the year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With these and other, lesser policy successes in mind, Abbott has declared himself content with his record:</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"If I'd been knocked over by a bus on the morning of the coup, I would have gone to the Pearly Gates and given an upbeat assessment. I don't believe we could have done much more or much better than we did. There was an enormous amount of solid achievement."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There were limits and problems but Abbott puts the full blame on factors beyond his control:</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I think it was a very successful government in spite of a feckless Senate, an irresponsible Labor Party, a poisonous media culture and well organised white-anting," he tells <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The independent and minor party crossbenchers in the Senate have a different version. They say the problem was Abbott's government presenting them with harsh and unfair measures which they could not accept, and Abbott's unwillingness to negotiate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott rejects this too: "I'm not sure what more I could have done [with the Senate crossbenchers]". One of them, Nick Xenophon, said Abbott's comments made him "feel genuinely sad because he doesn't get it - his budget policies were built on a non-existent foundation of broken promises, and no community support".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government's fortunes improved somewhat after the February spill.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The budget in May, with generous benefits for small business and no new harsh measures, was given credit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government had been behind by 45 per cent to 55 per cent in an average of all the major polls at the time of the February crisis, according to polling expert John Stirton; it recovered to 48 per cent to 52 over the next five months.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was still behind, but Abbott and Credlin were convinced that they could win an election from this position. That's consistent with the experience of earlier governments, including Howard's.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott's token gestures to party sentiment briefly mollified some. "Everyone really hoped it was going to work after the first spill," a junior minister says. "We all made an effort."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But they realised that the gestures - Credlin's disappearance from public view, regular meetings of his full ministry, dinners with MPs - were empty. Credlin remained in her job and Hockey in his. It was business as usual.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott and Credlin's confidence surged, and the misjudgments soon started to flow unchecked again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott's attempt to ambush his cabinet on citizenship laws. His successful ambush of the entire party with his same-sex marriage gambit. His forlorn effort to defend Bronwyn Bishop's expensive tastes in transport. His distracting "culture war" with the ABC over its Q&A show.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And in the meantime, a damaged Hockey, invariably drawn by cartoonists with an exploded cigar in his mouth, unable to carry an economic program, inflicted further self-harm with his response to people worried about home affordability - "get a good job".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The revival, just a couple of months old, died. The polls reverted. The government was behind 46 to 54 on Stirton's poll average, implying a savage loss of perhaps 30 of the government's 90 seats in the House. The survivors would be going to the opposition benches.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"If he had any decency he'd resign," an exasperated Turnbull said repeatedly to his supporters in Abbott's final weeks. He had decided to challenge, yet still hoped the prize would fall to him effortlessly.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So Turnbull and most of the party were already agitated by the time the final provocation arrived.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In February the lightning bolt that galvanised the spill was Abbott's decision to knight Prince Philip. In September it was a story in The Daily Telegraph musing on Abbott's plans for a cabinet reshuffle to remove "dead wood".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Peta Credlin was widely assumed to be behind the story. Turnbull described it to colleagues as a "Credlin special". Abbott and Credlin told colleagues they had no hand in it. By then it didn't really matter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MPs commonly believed that she leaked against colleagues who were out of favour. "It created a cycle of leak and counter-leak," says a cabinet minister who himself sometimes leaked against Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How can a single newspaper piece be so infuriating as to bring on a challenge to a prime minister? A backbencher explains: "It ticked all the boxes, all the things he'd promised to address, nothing had changed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"One, the prime minister's office is an island, it doesn't consult the party. Two, if you step out of line, Credlin will attack you through the media. Three, it showed the utter lack of any political judgment. Four, it was just the latest in a long line of endless f--- ups."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Any hope of even the possibility of recovery under Abbott evaporated in the despair and anger of a party pushed beyond any point of tolerance. The Telegraph story appeared on the Friday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That very day, Turnbull received the pledges that he was waiting for: "The numbers are coming to me, I've got the numbers," he announced to Julie Bishop that day by phone. His backbench zealots had been recruiting for him, but in the end Abbott and Credlin did the vital work for him. To the end, he didn't need to bargain or plead for votes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In earlier months, Robb had considered standing against Turnbull in the event of a challenge. That would have given the party's conservative faction an alternative that some would have found attractive.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It would have complicated Turnbull's task.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But by the time the critical point arrived, Robb had decided not to stand. The government was in crisis and only Turnbull could lead it out, he concluded.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the Turnbull campaign team didn't know that. To Robb's surprise, two backbenchers told him that he didn't look well and should take a few days off. No one had ever shown such concern for his health, he remarked to a colleague. It was the Friday before the coup.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He later discovered that, a day before that, Christopher Pyne had suggested Credlin give Robb the same message. The Turnbull team was trying to head Robb off, but this only became clear in retrospect.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Monday, as <span class="companylink">Parliament</span> resumed, a number of senior ministers could see the crisis building.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Small groups of backbenchers were talking to ministers, asking them to join the coup.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Abbott's cabinet colleagues knew that the leader was unwitting, despite media reports and warnings from colleagues. He'd persuaded himself he was safe. They feared an impasse and sought a breakthrough.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Tony Abbott 's final day as prime minister, three of his cabinet ministers discussed the idea of going to see him to tell him that his time was at an end.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With Abbott in Adelaide announcing funding for the Northern Connector road project, he brushed aside reporters' questions on the leadership as "insider gossip" and "Canberra games".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The gossip was actually useful intelligence; he had played the Canberra games hard, and he was on the cusp of losing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pyne and George Brandis separately phoned Julie Bishop about going together to see the leader.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bishop decided it had reached the critical point. It would be humiliating for a delegation to call on Abbott. She decided to go alone. She arranged to meet him the minute he returned from Adelaide.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When it finally came, Abbott was genuinely startled. Even after Bishop walked into his office at 11.55am and said:</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"As your deputy, this is a conversation I never wanted to have, but I have to tell you you've lost the backing of the majority of the party room and the majority of the cabinet."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even then Abbott had to ask her whether she thought Turnbull was really going to challenge. Turnbull would take advantage while he had the numbers, she said. "This is really happening," she told him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shocked and angry, he later blamed Morrison and Bishop for failing to warn him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But has any prime minister ever been so starkly warned? After the February spill, his party put him on a six-month probation and told him to get rid of Credlin and his treasurer, Hockey, as a condition of keeping his job.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott ignored the conditions and wished away the consequences.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the event, his final plea to his colleagues revealed the central failure of his prime ministership. In his televised remarks he asked them not to remove a sitting prime minister because "we are not Labor".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A Liberal backbencher, Dan Tehan, had earlier asked Abbott to "give us something to fight for". The idea captured Abbott and he repeated it to others. But he failed to give them anything to fight for. "We are not Labor" is not a compelling cause for a government facing defeat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After defeating him by 54 votes to 44, Turnbull sent Abbott a text message.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No one understands better than I do how you are feeling, wrote Turnbull, an allusion to the fact that Abbott had torn him down in 2009. The subtext: Live by the sword, die by the sword.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull concluded by sending his and Lucy Turnbull 's love to Abbott and his wife, Margie.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Good of you to say so, replied Abbott to his new leader. He also included a barb. Luckily, he told Turnbull, I am surrounded by people who love and respect me regardless of wealth and position. We should catch up some day, Abbott wrote, but better let some water go under the bridge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott found some solace in his trip to London to give the Margaret Thatcher address and mingle with like-minded conservatives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And perhaps solace was on his mind when Australia's most famous monarchist approached Buckingham Palace to request an audience with the Queen during his trip.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If so, he was disappointed. While he'd be the last to appear on Turnbull's list, he had expected to be on the monarch's. Other former Australian prime ministers have been given audiences, after all.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But, citing scheduling constraints, she declined to see him. The Queen's published schedule, however, does not seem much constrained. On the day after Abbott's speech, for instance, she had no appointments all day, only a reception in the evening where she awarded a prize for engineering.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Queen too, it seems, wanted to let some water go under the bridge.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Memories still flood in to street artist's work</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Philippa Hawker   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>813 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Exhibition - From graffiti to the gallery</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fintan Magee uses his personal experience of the Brisbane floods to talk about issues of climate change, writes Philippa Hawker.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For his new show, artist Fintan Magee allowed himself to be inundated with memories. Water World, at Backwoods Gallery in Collingwood, tells a story that's personal and universal, an evocation of natural disaster at once detailed and dreamlike, ordinary and strange.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 2011, floods swept through Queensland after a period of intense drought, and Magee's family home in Brisbane was surrounded by water. He recalls the frantic rush to save precious things, but he also thinks of the flooded world as strangely calm, almost peaceful, a consequence of what happens when everything grinds to a halt and "in a city of two million. The nine-to-five routine is turned on its head. Then the floodwaters subside, and you see all the mud and the sludge and the damage, I think that's when the drama really happened."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The paintings for Water World - oil and acrylic on canvas, solitary figures knee deep in water, holding objects; images of loss, bewilderment, uncertainty, strange playfulness - are derived from memories. He makes sketches, then sets up photographs to work from. Remembering and recreating can change your relationship with the past, he says. The subjectivity is heightened, "which is probably why the pieces feel quite surreal. They're your emotional response to the memory."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the outer room of the show is a series of sketches, with dates and explanatory captions. In the main room, there are 13 paintings and an installation. The gallery floor has been covered with red sand; in the middle of the room is a <b>boat</b> with a model house on stilts sitting inside it. A neon "Welcome" sign hangs over the front door of the house.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The red sand, 1.5 cubic metres of it, was carried into the upstairs gallery in buckets, over a period of hours. The <b>boat</b> was acquired on Gumtree, for free. Magee built the model house, while its neon sign - which has the "l" painted out, and therefore reads "we come" - had to be custom-made.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Magee has been thinking about the floods and the preceding drought for several years, he says, "using my personal experience to talk about broader issues of climate change and displacement".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The installation grew out of a mural called Queensland Flood <b>Refugee Boat</b> that he painted when he moved to Sydney two years ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The installation "started out as a humorous piece about my journey to Sydney as a kind of cultural <b>refugee</b> when there wasn't much happening in Brisbane. But then it took on more global meaning, I wanted it to talk about climate change, displacement due to climate change, future movements of population. And some people in Queensland haven't been very accommodating to refugees. So it's a kind of reminder that we could all be in the same <b>boat</b> in 40 years time."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Magee, a street artist who has established himself in recent years as a mural painter, comes from a family with creative interests; his father was a sculptor, his mother is a landscape artist. Graffiti was his first love but, going to art school, "I started to learn a little more and branch out a bit".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The sheer scale appealed to him and the internet has given mural painters a global profile.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"There's a kind of circuit, and street art festivals around the world that have really become quite prominent in the past four years. You don't necessarily get paid, but they'll cover your flights and accommodation, they'll organise the walls and materials." His recent invitations have included Atlanta's Living Walls, Tunisia's Djerbahood project on the island of Djerba, and the MOST festival in Moscow.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Next year, he will be working on both a small and a large scale; he has a solo show at Galleria Varsi in Rome as well as a mural project, and a London solo show in a pop-up space. He's looking to do murals in Norway, the US and Ukraine, as well as a couple in Australia. He is not sure if he has finished with the water world theme yet, although he won't base another solo show around it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the future, he thinks he might start exploring new media a little more. "I'm getting a little tired of the flat, 2D format," he says. Yet there's something about murals that will always appeal to him, he adds. "I like the scale, I like working in public, I like making art that's integrated into public spaces and part of people's everyday lives."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Water World is at Backwoods Gallery, Collingwood until December 13.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Work at its best is not a curse, it's a blessing</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Elizabeth Farrelly - Twitter: emfarrelly  </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">'So there it is," Malcolm Turnbull told the Prime Minister's Prize for Science dinner in October. "Don't retire, you'll just get sad. Think of yourself, think of your own health, just keep working, work until you drop, just keep doing it."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull was quoting his friend, psychiatrist Ian Hickie. Two days later, when news broke of Hazara <b>asylum</b> seeker Khodayar Amini burning himself to death in Melbourne, I'd been thinking exactly this. Watching a clip of faux-primitive man building faux-primitive hut, marvelling at the simple joy of doing stuff, making things, improving your lot. The joy of work.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And here's what I reckon. The 20th century's biggest lie - and there were a few - was the blanket insistence that work is bad and leisure good.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At its best, work is the purpose-giver, the dignifier. Work redeems us. Certainly, it depends on what work, and for whom. But even at its most rudimentary, work is a human right - a right of which Amini had been deliberately and systematically deprived.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Amini was here on a bridging visa, the kind we hand out as a supposedly humanitarian release from offshore detention; the kind that, since 2012, routinely includes an explicit and indefinite ban on work and study. It is a deliberate deprivation of purpose.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Amini was 30 when he died. When he hopped on a leaky <b>boat</b> to come here, he'd been 27, the same age that I, feeling rudderless, headed off to seek my fortune in London. As it turned out my fortune was a tad preferable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I was allowed to work and quickly found it, first as architect, then as editor. That work changed my life. I can't help feeling that even the possibility of work might have saved Amini's.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sure, most of us skive off occasionally, wishing weekends longer or chucking a sickie. But what would it be like, actually, to be explicitly prohibited from working or qualifying, at all, ever? How much of this man's soul-sickness was due to forced idleness?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Isn't that itself a form of torture?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Physics defines work as force times distance; a change in potential energy. Measured in ergs, calories, megajoules, elbow grease or eloquence, it moves a certain mass - be it carbon atom, moon rocket or idea - a certain distance. Work is spending energy to make change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We are born, each of us, with a golden parcel of this energy in our mouth. Our parcels vary in size and intensity, but they're ours to spend; our blood, sweat and tears, to sacrifice in the service of meaning.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It seems we've always misunderstood this, misperceiving ourselves - at least since Genesis - as fundamentally lazy. When Adam and Eve were exiled from paradise for the crime of knowledge-seeking (this in itself is weird) their punishment was work: Eve's to labour in childbirth and Adam's to "till the ground from whence he was taken."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But modernism, after the industrial revolution, built itself upon this error: work bad, leisure good. This single mistake made every labour-saving gadget proof of progress, every public holiday a testament to civilisation, every pre-processed food an advance on nature.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It drove our most egregious collective habits, from epidemic obesity to TV dinners to ubiquitous trackies, from sit-down money to the relentless, flannelised spread of suburbia uber alles.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And yet, we now see, leisure shows us at our least attractive - indolent, obese, loud - whereas work is what we do, and what we do best. Driving motion and e-motion, work creates food, connection, satisfaction, energy, beauty and meaning. Work defines us.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sure, it's hard to go from "just a job" to something you can both believe in and live off. That's why it's called work. And sure, some people live for their hobbies. Throwing pots. Breeding budgies. Playing golf.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But to dedicate your daylight hours to something in which you have no personal or moral stake is (personal view) a terrible, soul-destroying waste. Work draws on but also, ideally, generates a sense of purpose. And nothing thrills like purpose.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Still we're slow to see it. Many disciplines (tourism, psychology, retail strategists) study the upside of leisure; its varieties and benefits. Others (feminism, industrial relations, economics) study the downsides of work; its inequalities, stresses and politics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But just one discipline is interested in the joy of work: philosophy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Philosophers, for millenniums, have listed the pleasures of work. These include ordering (be it wiring a motherboard or writing a sonnet); understanding; money-making; serving; collaborating; identity; self-esteem; collective problem-solving.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Notice that material gain is just one of many. Part of modernism's utilitarian lie was to persuade us that money was work's sole benefit, and therefore its sole criterion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Meh," we say to ourselves. "So what if it's boring? It's just a job." But it's never just a job.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hannah Arendt started to remedy this lie, arguing that the human animal toils to eat and eats to toil. But this, while acknowledging work as a primal need, neglects its numinous aspect. For work is also a form of sacrifice. Sacrifice sacralises. It makes sacred.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And with sacrifice it absolutely matters in what cause. You don't want to make just anyone sacred - any old mega-corporate, any old industrial thug or big polluter. You want your sacrifice to count. But you also want the right to make it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Khodayar Amini was a nice guy, people said, friendly, likeable, a talented cook. He was scarcely literate, but before he died he wrote a three-page letter "with my blood", detailing his constant terror of being returned to detention (which happened for 11 months last year after an argument about a small licence fee refund).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"What was my crime?" he wrote. "How your treatment is different from the treatment of the <span class="companylink">Taliban</span> and <span class="companylink">Daesh</span>? ... In your view, we are not human beings."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Why did we stop him working? Surely not because we thought him a threat. But because Turnbull is right (and Genesis wrong). Work is not a curse but a blessing. We were punishing Amini, as we routinely punish others, for desperately seeking our help.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lifeline 131 114, <span class="companylink">Beyondblue</span> 1300 224 636</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Manus, Nauru ‘must never be a stopover’</span>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>413 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3 December 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor frontbencher Richard Marles will vow today that Manus Island and Nauru will never become a “stopover on the way to Australia”, promising one of his first acts in government would be to find a third country to resettle offshore <b>asylum</b>-seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Drawing a line under the past and calling for bipartisanship on border protection, Labor’s immigration spokesman will tell the Sydney Institute today the future of the Manus Island and Nauru facilities have become “the new hotspot of the <b>asylum</b>-seeker debate’’.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He will also call on the Turnbull government to re-engage with the <span class="companylink">UN High Commissioner for Refugees</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It is this which will bring our nation in from the cold and offer some sort of hope that sensible conversations can be had about the future of those <b>asylum</b>-seekers and refugees on Nauru and Manus Island,’’ he will say. “Without taking this step of re-engaging with the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>, another human tragedy will play out, this time within the Australian-funded detention facilities on Nauru and Manus Island.’’ Mr Marles has worked to build a consensus within the ALP to reshape the opposition’s border protection policies with an emphasis on generosity, fairness and compassion. He has also convinced Labor to accept the party got it wrong when it dismantled John Howard’s Pacific solution after taking office in 2007.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Today he will argue any debate involving Manus and Nauru must acknowledge the role the centres have played in halting the dangerous sea voyages to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It is utterly clear that the closing of these facilities or the bringing of any <b>asylum</b>-seekers to Australia will result in <b>asylum</b>-seeker vessels being put on the water once more and people drowning at sea again,’’ he will say. “Manus Island and Nauru must never be seen as a stopover on the way to Australia.’’ Mr Marles also will raise concerns about the pace at which the backlog of about 30,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers who arrived when Labor was in power are being processed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton yesterday said the government had “finalised 1732 <b>asylum</b> claims, 80 per cent of which have been rejected, showing that most who paid people smugglers to come by <b>boat</b> were not refugees’’.On the fate of about 2000 offshore <b>asylum</b>-seekers, Mr Marles will argue for a credible third-country option. “In this, the Coalition government has been a signal failure,’’ he said.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>tsydin : The Sydney Institute</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | nauru : Nauru | sydney : Sydney | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | nswals : New South Wales | pacisz : Pacific Islands</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020151202ebc300024</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020151202ebc300014" class="lastarticle" ><div id="lastArticle" class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Freedom the best present</span>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Religious groups seeking release of <b>asylum</b>-seekers in detention are realistic about their chance of success.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Continued on Page 4</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">T</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">he best Christmas present that the federal government could give to the Australian people is to release <b>asylum</b>-seeker families and their children from detention. The case in justice for this action is now overwhelming given that their presence in detention cannot be argued any longer as deterring people smugglers sending <b>boat</b> people to this country. Many in the community are lobbying for this to happen. A bill to bring this about is with the House of Representatives, having passed the Senate with the assistance of Labor, Green and crossbench senators. What will happen is unclear and the fact that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been in Paris and that community action last weekend naturally focused on climate change make it less likely. One group that has been working hard for months lobbying Parliament and government on this</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">issue is Catholic Religious Australia, the peak body, based in Sydney, for more than 180 congregations of Catholic nuns, brothers and priests. CRA met in Parliament House on October 15 with a small group of MPs to press their case and to promise the necessary accommodation, education and employment support for <b>asylum</b> seekers in the community. It also met with a wider group of about 40 Christian, Muslim and Jewish leaders. CRA is realistic about our political system. So its main targets</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">were Turnbull, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten. But in reality, despite the need for bipartisanship, the first two are the ones that count: the PM and Dutton, the reputed leader of the conservative Liberals within Cabinet. One outcome was a half-page letter addressed to all members of the Federal Parliament in the Sydney Morning Herald last Saturday in which CRA put its case publicly. It was signed by 22 religious leaders, mainly Catholic but also including the president of the Uniting Church, Stuart McMillan, and the Anglican Primate, Archbishop Philip Freier. The message to MPs was pointed: "In the next week, you have the opportunity to decide whether to release children and their families from immigration detention. This is a critical moment in the history of this nation. "During this time of preparation</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">for Christmas and the season of giving, we call on parliamentarians to give the gift of freedom to these children and their families. "As faith leaders called to love our neighbour and care for all who are vulnerable, we appeal to you, our political leaders, to do the right thing." These leaders also made an appeal to "all Australians of goodwill" to contact their local MP in this regard. What to make of such lobbying? Personally, I am convinced that a strong rational case has been made, but I am not optimistic that the appeal will succeed. Yet, whatever the outcome, I think the episode still says a lot both about the position of our Christian leaders and about the realities of our political process. There is a long tradition in Australian politics going right back to the time of Sir Robert Menzies of our political leaders telling our religious leaders to mind their own business. A previous deputy prime minister, Tim Fischer, once told religious leaders to get elected to Parliament if they wanted to make public policy. Relations can get very heated. Former foreign minister Alexander Downer and a previous Anglican Primate clashed bitterly about the Iraq War. So, despite their position officially representing still large faith communities religious leaders don't expect the government to jump to attention. They have been banging their heads against a brick wall on too many issues for too long to think that. They also know that despite going through the motions of addressing all MPs only the cabinet really matters. All lobby groups pretend to believe the fiction that all MPs matter. That is why they encourage ordinary citizens to go</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Freedom the best present for people in detention</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From Page 1</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">to the trouble of lobbying their local MP, whose input can be small at best. But in the interests of popular democracy it must be attempted. Any popular representation in our political process must recognise how complex and elongated that process really is. If citizens do contact their local MP then that person must be willing and brave</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">enough to raise it with fellow MPs in their party room. Sister Anne Lane, a Presentation Sister from Wagga Wagga, the spokeswoman for this religious lobbying, accepted the difficulties for those backing this change to prevail in their party rooms. Both major political parties have cultures in which the party room rarely insists that the cabinet do its bidding on such an issue. The</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull cabinet and outer ministry are actually so numerous that they effectively have the numbers to prevail over any dissension in the party room. The cabinet is where this decision will be made. Any effort by individual citizens to answer the call to lobby local Labor MPs, therefore, will only end up in the shadow party room, and Labor lacks the numbers in the House of</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Representatives to have any direct impact on the outcome. I feel like Scrooge saying this in the month before Christmas as Parliament sits for the last time this year. The Christmas lobbying on behalf of children and families in detention raises an urgent issue. There is an element of crying in the wilderness by our religious leaders, but they are right to take up</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">the challenge on our behalf. They must be generous enough to appeal to our better natures but also hard- headed enough to be realistic about the difficulties involved in shifting away from such a grim established policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">John Warhurst is an emeritus professor of political science at the Australian National University. John.Warhurst@anu.edu.au</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">to the trouble of lobbying their local MP, whose input can be small at best. But in the interests of popular democracy it must be attempted. Any popular representation in our political process must recognise how complex and elongated that process really is. If citizens do contact their local MP then that person must be willing and brave</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">enough to raise it with fellow MPs in their party room. Sister Anne Lane, a Presentation Sister from Wagga Wagga, the spokeswoman for this religious lobbying, accepted the difficulties for those backing this change to prevail in their party rooms. Both major political parties have cultures in which the party room rarely insists that the cabinet do its bidding on such an issue. The</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull cabinet and outer ministry are actually so numerous that they effectively have the numbers to prevail over any dissension in the party room. The cabinet is where this decision will be made. Any effort by individual citizens to answer the call to lobby local Labor MPs, therefore, will only end up in the shadow party room, and Labor lacks the numbers in the House of</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Representatives to have any direct impact on the outcome. I feel like Scrooge saying this in the month before Christmas as Parliament sits for the last time this year. The Christmas lobbying on behalf of children and families in detention raises an urgent issue. There is an element of crying in the wilderness by our religious leaders, but they are right to take up</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">the challenge on our behalf. They must be generous enough to appeal to our better natures but also hard- headed enough to be realistic about the difficulties involved in shifting away from such a grim established policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">John Warhurst is an emeritus professor of political science at the Australian National University. John.Warhurst@anu.edu.au</p>
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